Mártires Doyle Architects

Mártires Doyle Architects is a Melbourne architecture practice based in North Melbourne.

Its Lunchbox project, Split End House, is a renovation and extension of an old workers cottage on a narrow Northcote site with a south-facing backyard. The rear addition balances a good connection to the garden with keeping as much of the backyard as possible, and solves the problem of light with a cranked roofline that scissors to form a series of triangular windows, letting in direct sunlight and framing views of the sky.

See Split End House on Lunchbox below.

Split End House's Cranking and Splitting Roof Lets Light In

A south-facing backyard can feel like a curse, but an unconventional roofline could come to the rescue to let direct natural light in.