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Bulimba River House
Bulimba River House
Brisbane, Australia
Project Featured on Mar 12, 2014
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Bulimba River House
Brisbane, Australia
Project Featured on Mar 12, 2014
A subtropical house evocative of historic boat building sheds that lined the banks of the Brisbane River.
Historically boat building sheds lined the Bulimba Reach of the Brisbane River,contributing to the character of this riparian zone with their simple robust industrial forms. This house evokes that defining use, with its shed like form, spatial arrangement and use of materials. Its design takes cues from the prevailing maritime history of the Brisbane riverbank and makes explicit its connection to the river.
The primary structure of the house is a portal frame affording a simple shed like interior void. Living spaces occupy the ground floor in a seamless connection from the front gate to the jetty extending into the river beyond. Utility spaces such as car parking and storage are hidden away in a basement. The private spaces of the house are suspended over the living spaces like a boat hull under construction. A gantry-like stair connects to the upper level, segregating and transitioning the private and living spaces.
Elements of the house mimic and allude to maritime association and boat building provenance of the site. Industrial scaled sliding doors open up the house, turning interior spaces into semi outdoor spaces, affording generous views of the river and allowing the microclimate of the river to permeate within. The jetty-like structure adjacent the pool mimics the finger jetties that jut out into the river beyond. Robustly detailed materials such as steel and concrete allude to industry, whilst detailed timbers lining the house evoke highly crafted timber boats.
This is a house for the humid subtropics - a climate characterised by mild sunny winters and warm humid summers. Large openings enable the house to be opened and closed depending on the prevailing weather, allowing the occupants to moderate the internal climate of the house. In such an agreeable climate the definition between interior and exterior is intently ambiguous and the house is comfortable with the subtropical condition.
Historically boat building sheds lined the Bulimba Reach of the Brisbane River,contributing to the character of this riparian zone with their simple robust industrial forms. This house evokes that defining use, with its shed like form, spatial arrangement and use of materials. Its design takes cues from the prevailing maritime history of the Brisbane riverbank and makes explicit its connection to the river.
The primary structure of the house is a portal frame affording a simple shed like interior void. Living spaces occupy the ground floor in a seamless connection from the front gate to the jetty extending into the river beyond. Utility spaces such as car parking and storage are hidden away in a basement. The private spaces of the house are suspended over the living spaces like a boat hull under construction. A gantry-like stair connects to the upper level, segregating and transitioning the private and living spaces.
Elements of the house mimic and allude to maritime association and boat building provenance of the site. Industrial scaled sliding doors open up the house, turning interior spaces into semi outdoor spaces, affording generous views of the river and allowing the microclimate of the river to permeate within. The jetty-like structure adjacent the pool mimics the finger jetties that jut out into the river beyond. Robustly detailed materials such as steel and concrete allude to industry, whilst detailed timbers lining the house evoke highly crafted timber boats.
This is a house for the humid subtropics - a climate characterised by mild sunny winters and warm humid summers. Large openings enable the house to be opened and closed depending on the prevailing weather, allowing the occupants to moderate the internal climate of the house. In such an agreeable climate the definition between interior and exterior is intently ambiguous and the house is comfortable with the subtropical condition.
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