Sinuous strains, uncooked sculptural language, gentle and daring materials palette outline a brand new residence within the south of Melbourne, Australia.
The venture, named Peninsula House, was designed by Wood Marsh, a Melbourne-based structure studio who is understood for its daring, fluid, and curved geometries.
Considering the positioning’s bodily references and bounds, the studio has drawn the home as a creative architectural response to Australia’s shoreline and the contours of the agricultural panorama.
The venture is kind of daring for a low-lying profile construction, with its simplicity however contrasting materials selections.
Peninsula House is envisioned as a “dramatic sculptural relic, weathered by its context.”
The home is approached by way of a meandering driveway whereas a ribbon of rammed earth rises monumentally 10 meters into the air. It appears like a citadel wall wrapping behind the dwelling, earlier than step by step tapering and returning to the panorama.
The elevation is outlined by minimal glazing and helps appreciable thermal mass – stabilising the warmth from the afternoon solar. It contains a notch halfway alongside the wall, and types a shadow line, subtly defining the entry.
“Crossing the entry threshold, a lush, planted atrium defines the building’s axial centre, and permits pure gentle to flood into the inside,” mentioned Wood Marsh.
The inside of the home is formed by bending hallways resembling a snake and from the atrium it create three distinct zones: a residing zone for entertaining, a bed room zone, and a recreation zone.
The personal main bedroom is placed above the residing zone, accessed by a sweeping stair cloaked in darkness.
“The foremost double top residing area dramatically rises in direction of the glazing and the expansive views of the agricultural terrain and ocean,” the workplace mentioned.
“The sweeping parabolic ceiling affords a novel acoustic high quality to the area that accommodates the sound from the proprietor’s grand piano and assortment of musical devices.”
The home options a big, sheltered terrace adjoining to the principle residing area, it additionally meets the shopper’s temporary to host grand poolside occasions with views of the valley and water.
Each of the 5 bedrooms and foremost residing areas supplies views of the agricultural context and surrounds. At the tip of an evocative hallway, lined on one aspect with rammed earth and slot home windows, lies a purpose-built recording studio.
The workplace selected a darkish, pure exterior materials palette of charred timber and rammed earth for its sturdy, low-maintenance qualities.
“The charred battens cloak the building mass permitting it to recede into the agricultural context as an enigmatic kind,” mentioned the workplace.
“Internally the thematic high quality of darkness continues with black mosaic tiles, black timber battens, blackened brass, and black terrazzo flooring.”
The studio drawns an emphasis on the shifting nature of sunshine and shadow alongside curving surfaces and types of partitions and openings. Using monochromatic tones frames views of the pure colors current within the surrounding setting.
As the studio defined, “Peninsula House is envisioned within the spherical, to sit down harmoniously within the topography of its website – its uncooked sculptural language belying its home use – an erosional remnant shaped by its harsh, uncovered coastal setting.”
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Wood Marsh constructed a 5-star luxurious resort facility with sweeping arc-shaped quantity in Victoria, Australia.
The agency designed No. 6 Sydney Street residence that includes organically-sculpted columns that complement the undulating surfaces in Prahran, an internal suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Project details
Project title: Peninsula House
Architects: Wood Marsh
Location: Australia
Completion date: 2023
All photographs © Timothy Kaye.
All drawings © Wood Marsh.
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