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BASECABIN

MGAO . Builder: Base Cabin . photos: © Anthony Richardson

Drawing inspiration from livestock sheds that scatter farmlands, MGAO designed a tiny home on wheels to sit in any landscape and not detract from the picturesque view. So their simple Colorbond-clad cabin becomes its own “shed”, except it’s for humans to occupy. Continue reading MGAO

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BREEZEWAY House . Woollahra

MGAO – Matt Goodman Architecture Office . photos: © Kat Lu

This project is a residential dwelling, located in a small pocket of the leafy Sydney suburb of Woollahra. The project involves the alteration and addition of an existing, heritage-listed terrace. The existing dwelling forms part of a row of single-story terraces houses, all of which share their rear boundary with a public park. Continue reading MGAO

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House along the Great Ocean Road . Wye River

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Matt Goodman Architecture Office . photos: © PAUL HERMES . + wallpaper

This project is a private residence located in Wye River, a small coastal town located along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. The project was one of three Probono projects undertaken by MGAO after the 2015 Bushfires. Our clients have a long historical connection to the Wye River, with a family connection to a man named Paddy Harrington, one of the original builders who constructed many of the town’s early Fibro Beach Shacks. Continue reading MGAO

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HELENSLEA . Melbourne

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MGAO . photos: © Ben Hosking

This project is located in Caulfield North, a leafy suburb South-East of Melbourne in Victoria.
The site contains a large double storey Californian Bungalow style home, built circa 1940.

The project brief was for a functional family home, with living spaces suitable for daily life, which can also grow to accommodate 60+ guests on a regular basis.
The unique, asymmetrical design of the original home, and the interesting material palette of Rendered masonry and timber shingles, heavily influenced the design of the new addition. Continue reading MGAO

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Northcote House . NORTHCOTE

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MGAO . photos: © Paul Hermes

This project is an addition to an existing Weatherboard ‘Shop Front House’ located in Northcote, a suburb of Inner City Melbourne. Over the years the original building, once used as a Corner Store, accrued many poorly thought additions, the brief was to demolish all previous additions and replace them with a new, functional addition, containing Kitchen / Dining room and Bathroom. Continue reading MGAO