| Location: | Mosman, North Shore, Sydney NSW |
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| Project Type: | Custom New Studio + Access Upgrade |
| Site Area: | 967m2 |
| Site Context: | Steep, Narrow Harbourside Site |
| Scope: | New Build |
| Engagement: | Architecture, Interiors |
| Configuration: | Garage, Double Car Turntable, Ensuite Studio, Lift Access |
| Approval: | DA, Mosman Council |
| Classification: | Class 1 |
| Status: | Complete |
Mosman Harbourside Studio
On a near-vertical sliver of Mosman, where a driveway falls steeply toward the home and harbour beyond, sat a genuine architectural challenge. The drive was too steep and tight for a car to turn and face the street again and, on a slope this severe, even reaching the front door of the main home was a daily negotiation.
MILEHAM’s brief was to resolve the parking problem the site had always defied. The solution was a new standalone studio to accompany the home already onsite, its roof providing the platform a new garage and turntable could sit on. To achieve this, the answer was to think in section rather than plan. Where the drive runs out, the turntable receives each car and returns it to face the road. And beneath that parking deck, where you would least expect to find one, is the studio. A new room set into the fall of the land, its roof quietly doing the daily work of the driveway while the space below remains entirely, and privately, its own.
The two could not feel more different. Above, the everyday business of arriving home; below, a single generous room that turns its back on the street and its face to the harbour.
A Room of Its Own
Freed from the demands of the parking above it, the studio below is all calm. It’s designed to stand on its own: a single generous room with its own ensuite and mezzanine, able to work as a home office, a guest suite, or a quiet separate retreat just steps from the main home.
A wide wall of glass slides back to the garden and pool, the harbour glinting through the trees beyond, while sandstone, rendered walls and warm timber keep the new structure grounded and in line with its environment. The result is a structure that feels a part of the site’s story rather than additional to it. It’s entirely in partnership with the main house, and yet embodies its own identity and purpose.
Sandstone, Render and Filtered Light
Sandstone, Render and Filtered Light
Sandstone, Render and Filtered Light
Sandstone, Render and Filtered Light
The Garage on the Roof
It is one thing to understand the arrangement, another to stand beneath it. The parking deck is a full structural slab, engineered to carry two cars and the turntable above while keeping the studio below sealed from their weight, movement and noise. The result is a room that feels nothing of the activity overhead — quiet, private, and held behind glass, with Sydney Harbour steady in the frame.
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