Sharing Time

别墅

作者：麦子gl

分类：别墅建筑
内容：实景照片
图片：9张

For a couple with children, living in the inner city, this beach house is a welcome retreat. Instead of being hemmed in by neighbours, the closest thing to their doorstep is the native scrub. A five-minute walk from the protected beach, time spent at the beach house often extends beyond the weekend. "Time is shared between the two houses," says architect Daniel Holan, of Holan Joubert Architects who co-designed the house.
On a long narrow site (17 by 50 metres), the 230-square-metre house is divided into three zones. To one side of the house is the children‘s wing (two bedrooms and a television room). The lounge, kitchen and dining area occupies the central zone. And on the other side of the house are the main bedroom, bathroom and study. Two corridors on either side of the main living area accentuate the three divisions. Unlike many city terraces, with long dark corridors, these passageways are light and well ventilated. Louvred glass windows designed at both ends of the house allow for the continuous flow of sea breezes through the house.
As one of the owners is tall (over 2 metres), the architects were mindful of providing generous ceiling heights. In the main living area, the pitched ceiling extends from 4.5 metres to 4.7 metres in height. Even in the bedrooms, the ceilings are 3.4 metres high. "We wanted to make strong connections to the bush and create a sense of transparency. The idea wasn‘t to feel as though you were living in a bunker," says Holan. Large glass doors at either end of the kitchen/living area can be pulled right back on warmer days.
The beach house features a stained plywood skin, detailed with timber battens. The stained plywood cedar is a refreshing alternative to many of the palettes used for beach houses. "It‘s a beach house, but that doesn‘t mean you need to try and match up the paint colours with the sea," says Holan, who, like the owners, preferred a more sophisticated approach to the scheme. The neutral palette inside the beach house, allows the gnarled bushland to be the focus, together with the massive Oregon beams (250 by 50 millimetres) above the living area. "The beams outline the roof, but they‘re structurally important to the design," he says.
Sophisticated and restrained, this beach house is also robust. The children have their own areas, but they aren‘t restricted from enjoying the entire house. And when the doors are pulled back, they can explore the bushland setting freely.