The Journey of Restoring A Brutalist Home (House Tour)

Culminating the journey of restoring a brutalist house, Chambers House is a considered, functional family home. Originally designed by former owner and Brisbane architect Rodney Chambers, Chambers House is a brutalist building, heritage listed for its use of concrete and blockwork. Instrumental in defining the architectural context of the Brisbane suburb of Teneriffe Hill, Chambers House celebrates the balance between light and dark, heavy and soft. When Shaun Lockyer and Jen Negline of Shaun Lockyer Architects embarked on the journey of restoring a significant architectural element of the Brisbane landscape, the original floorplan had virtually no defined rooms. “We often light-heartedly joke that we started with a zero bedroom house and we now how have a four bedroom house,” says Shaun Lockyer, Director of Shaun Lockyer Architects, “but all of that way done within a very, very small extension.” Distinct in its crafted, functionalist and brutalist design, the raw materials used are offset by the sensitivit