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Premaydena House
Premaydena House
Premaydena, Australia
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Premaydena House
Premaydena, Australia
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
The Premaydena house sits on a low podium on a large wooded site on the Tasman Peninsula, southeast of Hobart. The site faces north, on an inward curve of the peninsula, to Norfolk Bay. The clients came to the architect as the latter had already designed a house for them in Sydney. That house, framed by recycled timber screens, had been inspired by a balsa model by the architect, displayed at a Greenbuild Expo in Sydney several years earlier. This model expressed ideas the architect had considered for his own house – lightness and light, simple module proportions, screening and layering. So when the clients bought the 19-hectare site at Premaydena, the architect was asked to design a house based on the same principles.
The building is backed by dense stands of eucalypts on a hill, protecting it from the southerly winds coming off the Great Southern Ocean. However, an often-gusty northeasterly picks up speed, salt moisture and coolness as it crosses Norfolk Bay. To address the cold, salty wind issue, the house is a box within a box; to handle the clients’ request for two bedrooms and ensuites separated from the living area, the house is a box beside a box’. This again emulates the architect’s own home in the Huon Valley, where, he says, the box, as “an experimental laboratory … has allowed me to experiment with ideas in a controlled environment”.
The external red and orange galvanized metal panels make the house highly visible. The colours are matched to the fiery lichen ubiquitous on the local beaches. The darker red panels denote entry points and slide open, much like the external screens of a Japanese teahouse, to reveal a two-stage, private core. First, they enclose a verandah, which completely enfolds the internal boxes to exclude summer sun, wind and salt moisture. Next, insect screens slide, shoji-like, from the inside walls. More profound are two modules with a spine of ensuites and laundry. Finally, even with the external panels closed, a set of expansive clerestory windows to the south pulls in light to the living areas and main bedroom.
In a teahouse, chashitsu, the internal ceremonial space, is refined and disposed to intellectual fulfilment. So too, in this house, windows align perfectly with the parted panels, both beds can be exposed entirely (and privately) to vistas and breeze, and minimal internal ornamentation allows the residents to muse on the shifting clouds or geometric patterns of light cast on the verandah when the screens are closed on a bright but windy day.
The modular has many precedents; it is still a successful planning system as it offers, at least, transparency of technology and minimal use of materials. In the Premaydena house, the modular - boxes within and beside each other – generates a series of elegant living spaces that provide respite from the external elements and, in homage to the chashitsu, opportunities to re-engage with daily rituals.
The building is backed by dense stands of eucalypts on a hill, protecting it from the southerly winds coming off the Great Southern Ocean. However, an often-gusty northeasterly picks up speed, salt moisture and coolness as it crosses Norfolk Bay. To address the cold, salty wind issue, the house is a box within a box; to handle the clients’ request for two bedrooms and ensuites separated from the living area, the house is a box beside a box’. This again emulates the architect’s own home in the Huon Valley, where, he says, the box, as “an experimental laboratory … has allowed me to experiment with ideas in a controlled environment”.
The external red and orange galvanized metal panels make the house highly visible. The colours are matched to the fiery lichen ubiquitous on the local beaches. The darker red panels denote entry points and slide open, much like the external screens of a Japanese teahouse, to reveal a two-stage, private core. First, they enclose a verandah, which completely enfolds the internal boxes to exclude summer sun, wind and salt moisture. Next, insect screens slide, shoji-like, from the inside walls. More profound are two modules with a spine of ensuites and laundry. Finally, even with the external panels closed, a set of expansive clerestory windows to the south pulls in light to the living areas and main bedroom.
In a teahouse, chashitsu, the internal ceremonial space, is refined and disposed to intellectual fulfilment. So too, in this house, windows align perfectly with the parted panels, both beds can be exposed entirely (and privately) to vistas and breeze, and minimal internal ornamentation allows the residents to muse on the shifting clouds or geometric patterns of light cast on the verandah when the screens are closed on a bright but windy day.
The modular has many precedents; it is still a successful planning system as it offers, at least, transparency of technology and minimal use of materials. In the Premaydena house, the modular - boxes within and beside each other – generates a series of elegant living spaces that provide respite from the external elements and, in homage to the chashitsu, opportunities to re-engage with daily rituals.
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