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Our challenge was to demonstrate that a custom architectural solution could achieve our client's budget whilst responding directly to the essence of the site and its location. The house demonstrates that we could not only capture the sense of place, but we could also deliver a competitive cost effective solution.A simple brief and program requirements, teamed with a dramatic site characterised by a steep slope and a single tea tree, enabled the design to become an exploration into enclosing the basic rituals of domestic life within restrained building forms, whilst at the same time exposing the building's program to varying levels of interaction with the surrounding landscape, both immediate and beyond. Emphasis becomes not on the insular and what has been designed, but what nature has provided and drawing this readily available genius loci inside for all to experience.The front elevation comprises solely of blackened timber walls, punctured only to signify the entry. The use of black timber cladding increases the perception of the building form sitting low within the existing native grasses and tree shadows, and this in turn helps promote opportunities to connect intimately with the landscape.In stark contrast to the surrounding houses, which attempt to cancel out the sloping topography by creating a podium level at which the outdoor areas sit exposed high above ground level, the design for this house adopted a gentler strategy, with the building form spilling down the slope to terminate in a series of terraced decks. These low lying decks provide privacy from the golf course below, whilst the surrounding native landscape shelters the outdoor areas from harsh prevailing winds.Varying levels of interaction and connection with the landscape, both real and perceived, drove all aspects of the design, from the channelled views of the horizon upon entry, through to the double height picture window that captures the full proportion of the tea tree, and the direct and intimate connection provided by the low level decks.
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