River Hearth House in The Design Files

This Brisbane house has been built to embrace the natural beauty of its riverfront location.

It’s the home of woodcarver and artist and her partner, who purchased the Chelmer block in 2018 and enlisted the help of Arcke to redesign the property.

‘Theresa, one of the owners, required a studio space that could facilitate her creative practice and group woodcarving workshops. The other required a generous office space to work from home,’ Arcke director Matt Kennedy says.

The property had been ravaged by termites and floods, which meant the only option was to demolish and rebuild.

It was also an opportunity to create new spaces for work, rest, and play, all ‘quietly’ coexisting with the site. They made the effort to retain the established trees, and used them to inform the resulting architecture.

Read the full story here. Images by Christopher Frederick Jones.