A headland residence designed around a single idea: the horizon should feel like it belongs to the house.
We worked from the view inward — siting every primary room to the water, then letting the structure recede so the landscape leads. Materials were chosen to weather gracefully in the salt air: board-formed concrete, spotted gum, and brushed brass that will only improve with time.
The brief asked for “a calm house for a loud life.” The result is a sequence of quiet thresholds that slow you down as you move toward the sea.
Months of light studies and tide observation before a single line was drawn.
Five quiet transitions from street to sea — each one lowering the noise.
Concrete, timber and brass, left to age. Nothing that needs hiding.