In a palm forest in Noosa’s subtropical hinterlands, a household residence snugly nestles into its panorama. Even the home’s title, Australis, is a response to the Livistona australis (cabbage palm bushes) on the positioning.
This diploma of consideration to connection was central to the temporary that the householders – a pair with younger youngsters – gave to Sealand Architects. The household needed a spot to attach with mates, family and nature.
Nostalgic supplies like Javanese teak and blackbutt timber have been paired with geometric shapes for a comfortable but up to date really feel.
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David Chatfield
To fulfil the temporary, the follow drew on custom. The house’s exterior profile responds to the gable roofs attribute of the realm’s late Nineteenth- and early Twentieth-century Queenslanders. Its structure was impressed by the farmhouse typology typical of the agricultural space, the place cascading pavilions separate areas by perform and match the home to the contours of the positioning.
“Now we have an affection for conventional Queensland structure and had been keen on designing a home that responded to the native local weather and life-style,” architect David Teeland mentioned.
That responsive strategy is clear within the residence’s inside. Beneath the gabled timber roof, the principle pavilion’s giant central areas – kitchen, eating, residing – circulate collectively in a spacious open flooring plan. The gardens and pure panorama are invited in by giant glazed sliding doorways.
It’s simple to think about family and friends connecting right here. Designer Clo Studios infused the inside with a palette of heat neutrals from the encircling panorama; nostalgic supplies like Javanese teak and blackbutt timber have been paired with geometric shapes for a comfortable but up to date really feel. Stools sit side-by-side on the kitchen island bench, couch cushions wait in inviting piles, and clear sightlines appear ready-made for waving family members nearer.
The inside palette of native hardwood, stone, concrete and plaster “offers a beautiful feeling of heat” but is sturdy and simple to scrub.
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David Chatfield
When it’s time to recharge, occupants and friends can retreat to the smaller, extra intimate pavilions at both finish of the principle quantity. These bookending constructions comprise the bedrooms. Not solely does this design help the shoppers’ present needs for connection and privateness, it additionally pre-emptively accommodates the long run wants of their rising household.
This far-sighted strategy was intentional and fairly actually formed the ground plan: “When the kids are younger, the household can sleep in adjoining rooms. As the kids become older, they’ll transfer to the opposite finish of the home,” Teeland mentioned.
Sealand Architects additional geared up the house for the generally messy realities of household life with fastidiously chosen supplies. The inside palette of native hardwood, stone, concrete and plaster “offers a beautiful feeling of heat,” the architects mentioned, but is sturdy and simple to scrub. Outdoors, steel roof sheeting joins native stone and hardwood in a characterful, bushfire-resistant exterior: a becoming strategy to shield this home, which is a part of its panorama in nature and in title.
