This courtyard style home is designed to be "a home to retire in, to embrace life and live life to the full, in comfort and daily delight". With a simple coastal vibe, the home is light, bright and relaxed, using natural materials and textures to enhance a sense of connection to earth, sea and sky. Design for aging-in-place - a light-filled, airy, thermally efficient, single level home taking in sea breezes, tropical courtyard gardens and plunge pool.
Configured as 3 interconnecting gabled pavilions, we created a series of courtyards or outdoor rooms; each with its own unique purpose, 'wrapping' the home around each courtyard to maximise a sense of connection to the site, the natural environment, and to engage with the street and passers-by. These spaces respond to the seasonal changes of sun, temperature, breezes and humidity, allowing the owners to shift and move around the home as they need, either to find a sunny, sheltered spot for reading in winter, or a shaded, tropical breezy oasis near a turquoise pool in summer.
Constructed by talented local builder Crump Constructions. Featuring burnished concrete floors, robust Hardies Scyon Linea cladding combined with colorbond roof, this home is designed and constructed for low maintenance. The building features warm accents of recycled timber doors, high spec louvred windows to maximise solar gain and ventilation, PV on the roof, and a fully sealed, insulated, ventilated facade, with soaring raked ceilings. No space is wasted, with side boundaries featuring built-in seating and planting, creating a home which is integrally connected to its place and environment.
WINNER - BDAA National Design Awards 2024 - 3D Environment
WINNER - Southern Regions Master Builders Awards 2024 - Crump Constructions