Australian architect Matt Gibson and his studio have renovated and extended a traditional villa in Melbourne, adding deep verandahs that can be protected from harsh sunlight using woven steel-mesh curtains.To get more news about metal mesh curtain, you can visit boegger.net official website.

Matt Gibson Architecture + Design was tasked with upgrading the property in the Australian city's Barrington heritage area, in order to create more liveable spaces with a better connection to the large garden for a family of five.

An earlier extension was removed to enable the alterations to the building, which did not seek to increase the overall floor area but rather focused on reorganising the existing rooms to generate an optimised, flexible layout.
The contemporary addition challenges the concept of building low quality, replica additions that attach themselves to the heritage fabric and in effect compromise, confuse and diminish the integrity of the original," the studio claimed.

"The intervention here is instead contemporary and interactive," they added, "activating and opening up the compartmentalised interior to previously under-utilised green space, and at the same time preserving and augmenting the cultural significance of the original building."The need to create a new sheltered outdoor space for year-round dining prompted the project team, led by Japanese architect Erica Tsuda, to seek out a solution that would limit glare resulting from the west-facing orientation.

The architects chose to adapt a traditional Japanese concept known as "Hiro-En", where deep verandahs are added to rooms to create a usable threshold between indoor and outdoor spaces.

Computer modelling of sunlight and shadow helped to establish how a similar process, involving the accurate placement of canopies at different heights, could shelter the living spaces from summer sun while admitting it during winter.