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Troppo have worked on over 1,000 residential projects, from bathroom and verandah additions through to humble shacks to urban dwellings. Large or small, all seek to keep their footprint to the least, trading more expensive indoor and conditioned space for more economic and fun outdoor space – courts, decks, verandahs, breezeways.
Often projects are staged within a site master plan.
We work with the whole site (and its context beyond). We are not about architecture as ‘object’. We do not plonk a house on a site – we ‘carve’ it from the site, working ‘in section’, in the vertical dimension, to consider the connection between indoor and outdoor space, between ground and sky – and always with due regard for neighbouring conditions and the wider setting.
Each Troppo house, or rework of an existing dwelling, seeks to extend its occupants’ empathy with the site and its very particular environment.
Each piece of residential work reflects the ambitions, stories, and, yes, the nuanced functional needs of its users.
Troppo houses have occupied page 1 of the Phaidon Atlas of World Architecture in its 2 recent editions (2004, 2008); and our residential work, big and small, is widely and highly awarded.
First Creek House, Tusmore, SA, 2020
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Outside [the] Box, Goodwood, SA, 2019
Hawthorndene Well-timbered House, SA, 2019
Ochota Basket Range Outdoor Room, SA, 2019
Owen Street Rooftops, Adelaide, SA, 2017
Remaking Augusta, Maylands, SA, 2017
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The 'H' House, Byron Bay, NSW, 2016
Forest & Beach House - Byron Bay, NSW, 2015
Bushby Residence - just out of Albany, WA, 2015
Friedrichstrasse House - Maylands, SA, 2015
Haus Blong Miranda - Efate, Vanuatu, 2015
Willaroo Farm House - Kangaroo Island, SA, 2013
Strohmayr House, NT, 2013
RK Pavilion Addition - Westbourne Park, SA, 2013
Jureidini Living Wing - Beulah Park, SA, 2013
Creek Chic - Torrens Park, SA, 2011
Mortlock Lee House - Giraween, NT, 2011
Horseshoe Bay House - Magnetic Island, North Qld, 2010
Whale of a Beach House - Port Elliot, SA, 2010
Pied-a-terre - Glen Osmond, SA, 2010
Spring’s House, Applecross, WA, 2010
Martin-Hetzel Beach House - American River, SA, 2010
Levitzke Additions, Kensington SA, 2009-2010
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Tennyson Beach House - Tennyson, SA, 2009
Buttfield Townhouse - North Adelaide, SA, 2007
Brammy Kyprianou Townhouse - North Adelaide, SA, 2007
Bastian Lakehouse - Auburn, SA, 2003
Wallaby Way House House - Magnetic Island, North QLD, 2007
Retreat at Cap du Voltigeur - Kangaroo Island, SA, 2005
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Rozak House - Lake Bennett, NT, 2002
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Thiel House - Cullen Bay, NT, 1996
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