2015
Queensland Building Design Awards
Major Patio Makeover
• Category 7 – Residential Reno < $300k
• Category 25 – Most Innovative Design
• “Craven Patio”
• 3 Gordonbrook Close, Albany Creek. Q. 4035.
• Designer - Latemore Design
Team – Andrew Beaman
Peter Latemore
before
after
before
after
design brief
• Help!
• Please improve our back yard.
• We don’t use any of it!
• Why don’t we like the Patio?
• We are thinking of filling in pool.
• Any ideas? You Bet!
design analysis
- site
• 700m2 site
• Suburbia
• Brick+Tile
House
• Rear has NE
orientation
• Steel Roof
Patio
• Underused
rear yard
Aerial view, surrounded by
similar 90’s houses
design analysis
- conditions
•Patio roof very low.
•Steel roof hot in summer.
•Dark house, even though facing north.
•Patio narrow and undefined.
•Pool dated.
•Pool access clumsy.
•Landscape Designer needed.
design outcome
• Kept pool with makeover.
• High roof brings in light.
• Patio wider – useful.
• Blades combine patio with
pool etc.
• Roof curve ties in with
existing pool.
• $65k for patio makeover
(extra $55k for pool repair +
landscaping)
design outcome
• Innovative
structural
solution to
achieve
large thin
roof, with
curve, on
only three
posts
(More on this later)
View over pool
• Pool completely joined to patio + house
Dining end of Patio
• Reversed curves in full view
Glass brings pool close
Blades
• Define zones + good for bracing
Lovely at night
• Now well used including pool
Entertainer
• Dead zone now everyone’s favourite
Tensioning Rods
• Post-tensioning allows
massive span increase
Outriggers+Fascia
• Purlins turned to form
curve
• Fascia formed from
layers of ply
Clever Builder
Ross Stone
with
ADstructure (engineer)
Innovative
Structure
• No visible means of support
• Just 3 steel posts
• Commercial awning tricks in timber
site
Patio now
wider,
drawing
pool closer.
floor plan
Curved roof
inspired by
kidney pool,
so pool
shape no
longer
conflicts.
roof plan
Higher raised skillion brings in northern light
section
Steel beams
cantilever beyond
posts
roof framing plan
Curved cantilever
has posttensioned rods!
Note the curved
ply fascia
Purlins produced
the thinnest roof
by allowing roof &
ceiling fixed direct
roof structure
with ADstructure (engineer)
Innovative detailing to create the ‘thin’ roof, using
commercial awning methods - except in timber
roof details
with ADstructure (engineer)
landscape
We worked in conjunction with
Seed to create the best result
A Great Environment !!
Photos – Jose Figlioli
Slide show – Peter Latemore