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Award-Winning Keperra House is no Granny Flat

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Australian architects A-CH were tasked with rethinking the typical antipodean back-yard sleepout, with its air of fussy kitsch, and come up with something fresh and stylish to accommodate visiting relatives.

The idea was to create the non-granny flat.

The mysterious and boxy metal building they came up with looks a bit forbidding.

Sited at the bottom of the client’s garden, it has just one a gigantic metal door at its center.

But the full height metal door slides back to reveal a warm wooden heart.

An Australian unpretentiousness informs the interior design aesthetic of what is definitely no granny flat.

The exterior might be hard aluminum, but the interior is lined in cheap, warm and practical plywood.

The low budget building has a relaxed and affable feeling that completely belies the severity of the exterior.

The low budget Keperra House won a Small Project Architecture Award at the 2013 Queensland Architecture Awards.