Queensland Australian Sites
Sunrise Beach House
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Landscape Architect: Wilson Landscape Architects
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.
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2008
