LOCATION: Sunrise Beach Queensland
Much has been said about the ‘death of the classic beach house’. Reflecting on the design of the Sunrise Beach House, the house maintains the fundamental idea of living at the beach — the connectedness.
With its extensive openings and shifting views the beach house does not preoccupy with just the ocean. It is also about connection to the sand and beach vegetation. It is about the weather. It is about these textures and materials which although considered to within an inch of their lives, are fundamentally rooted in the senses.
This beach house avoids the preoccupation to hug the boundary to maximize sea views; instead a sequence of ocean vignettes are playfully screened and framed against the house and landscape.
The immediate surrounding materials of caked sand, native pandanus and water were the reference for a palette of raw concrete, glass and zinc offset with the warmth of timber and the twisted sculptural nature of pandanus to create an environment of contrast where the 'elegant' versus 'raw' versus 'refined' versus 'natural' would allow the client to feel dressed for dinner in wet togs.
This project was a collaborative fusion of architecture and landscape architecture within our integrated practice.
We are all familiar with the pavilion beach-house type, planned to respond to the four points of the compass, as we are familiar with the urban courtyard house that serves to cocoon a gentle internal domesticity from an uncontrolled urban context. This house represents a very effective hybrid building type.
The U-shaped boundary walls create a zone of calm, grounded-ness at the rear of the site, a wonderful counterpoint to the light airiness of the building. The seemingly counter-intuitive decision to draw back from the allowable beachfront building line gives a painterly control of mid-distance detail to strengthen the primal connection to the breaking surf and the immense horizon beyond.
In this project the landscape, particularly the magnificently placed pandanus trees, creates the place, and the built works, indisputably beautiful as they are, are merely well-crafted places to respectfully dwell within the landscape.
The need for pool safety and the impact of visual impediments has been a constant tension in the development of the pool enclosure. The placement of the pool as an important visual intervention in the landscape required minimum disruption to this view. A ha-ha negotiates this view whilst preventing physical access. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " Essay upon modern gardening - Walpole, Horace, 1780
With this beach house the ha-ha harmonizes the garden within to both the pool and the ocean beyond whilst the ‘wilder country’ in this case are the children from within.
The U-shaped boundary walls create a zone of calm, grounded-ness at the rear of the site, a wonderful counterpoint to the light airiness of the building. The seemingly counter-intuitive decision to draw back from the allowable beachfront building line gives a painterly control of mid-distance detail to strengthen the primal connection to the breaking surf and the immense horizon beyond.
In this project the landscape, particularly the magnificently placed pandanus trees, creates the place, and the built works, indisputably beautiful as they are, are merely well-crafted places to respectfully dwell within the landscape.
The need for pool safety and the impact of visual impediments has been a constant tension in the development of the pool enclosure. The placement of the pool as an important visual intervention in the landscape required minimum disruption to this view. A ha-ha negotiates this view whilst preventing physical access. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " Essay upon modern gardening - Walpole, Horace, 1780
With this beach house the ha-ha harmonizes the garden within to both the pool and the ocean beyond whilst the ‘wilder country’ in this case are the children from within.
Innovative Design
For many people, the most essential quality of a beach house is to feel open to the elements, even part of the beach beyond, yet still retain enough shelter and privacy for comfort.
The beach house constructed directly onto the beach successfully combines the built and natural environments.
“The beautiful landscape created within the immaculate cast-concrete walls steps down towards the beach view, and a range of sophisticated operable walls, windows and screens allow precise tuning for sun, view and breeze.”
Peter SkinnerRAIA Jury Director
For many people, the most essential quality of a beach house is to feel open to the elements, even part of the beach beyond, yet still retain enough shelter and privacy for comfort.
The beach house constructed directly onto the beach successfully combines the built and natural environments.
“The beautiful landscape created within the immaculate cast-concrete walls steps down towards the beach view, and a range of sophisticated operable walls, windows and screens allow precise tuning for sun, view and breeze.”
Peter SkinnerRAIA Jury Director
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