Kent House is a renovation and addition to a 1925 Queenslander in Brisbane, positioned on a compact inner-urban site with close neighbouring boundaries and an elevated aspect capturing district views and northern light.

The project establishes a dialogue between the retained cottage and a new architectural intervention, expressed as two distinct volumes lifted above a landscaped ground plane. This configuration allows the house to engage the slope of the site while maintaining separation between old and new.

A central courtyard is introduced as the organising element of the plan, mediating privacy, improving daylight access and enabling cross-ventilation across the constrained site. It also reinforces the spatial logic of the Queenslander undercroft, extending open living conditions at ground level and drawing landscape through the heart of the dwelling.

Internal spaces are arranged to follow the natural fall of the site, creating subtle shifts in level that connect interior rooms to surrounding vegetation and distant views. The kitchen occupies a central threshold between the original cottage and the new addition, acting as a spatial hinge within the composition.

Operable façades allow the building to respond to seasonal conditions, enabling natural ventilation by drawing breezes up the slope and through the plan during warmer months, while maintaining enclosure and thermal stability in cooler periods.

Material continuity between inside and outside reinforces the integration of house and landscape, with a restrained palette of timber, concrete and stone offset by warmer tones within key interior spaces. Bathrooms and ancillary spaces are treated as contained volumes, defined by tactile surfaces and controlled light.

Structure is expressed throughout the building, articulating thresholds, framing openings and defining moments of compression and release within the spatial sequence.