Structure studio Wooden Marsh used curved charred timber partitions and rammed earth to create this house south of Melbourne, which is designed to replicate Australia’s ‘windswept’ shoreline.
Referred to as Peninsula Home, the house is positioned close to the city of Flinders, overlooking Bass Strait and surrounded by farmland.
Relatively than designing an orthogonal quantity, Wooden Marsh took cues from the form of the shoreline and the winding paths resulting in the location.
This provides rise to a curved type with lengthy “arms” that wrap round a walkway and pool deck.
“Elevated, the home’s type takes its cue from the prehistoric coast of Bass Strait,” founding companion Randal Marsh advised Dezeen.
“The outside texture displays that weathered, windswept type, whereas additionally referencing an natural mammal, harking back to the whale carcasses that usually wash up on the seashore,” he continued.
The doorway to Peninsula Home leads into an atrium, which is organized round a small central courtyard wrapped with floor-to-ceiling home windows.
Right here, the inexperienced planting creates a powerful distinction with each the encompassing panorama and the monochrome interiors, the place the rammed earth construction of the home is left uncovered in some areas.
On to the south of the central courtyard is a double-height dwelling, kitchen and eating room with views of the east terrace and panorama by way of giant home windows and from a first-floor balcony.
“On the heart of the inside is the inside backyard. This was designed to be in stark distinction to the sturdy, windswept panorama outdoors,” stated Marsh. “It serves to intensify and body the view as if it have been a dwelling murals.”
Hallways result in bed room and recreation areas in every of the home’s two slender wings, together with a purpose-built recording studio to the north.
All through, darkish stone flooring, darkish wooden paneling and black tiles within the loos replicate the charred timbers of the outside, contrasted with white partitions and ceilings that carry a way of openness to the dwelling space.
“The black inside palette displays the shapes and particulars of the outside charred wooden,” defined Marsh.
“There may be an emphasis on the altering nature of sunshine and shadow alongside curved surfaces and the shapes of partitions and openings,” he added.
Wooden Marsh was based in 1983 by Roger Wooden and Randal Marsh. The studio’s earlier initiatives embrace a curved house block in Melbourne and a golf membership in Level Lonsdale, with sweeping concrete partitions jutting out of the encompassing coastal dunes.
Photograph by Timothy Kaye.