Peninsula House | Wood Marsh Architecture
As an artistic architectural response to Australias coastline, Peninsula House forms a dramatic sculptural relic, weathered by its context. A ribbon of rammed earth rises monumentally, before gradually tapering and returning to the landscape.
The planted atrium defines the axial centre, allowing natural light to flood the interior. Hallways snake from the atrium forming three distinct zones. The main double height living space rises towards the expansive views of Flinders and Bass Strait.
The dark, natural material palette of charred timber and rammed earth shrouds the building. Internally the thematic quality of darkness continues with black mosaics, timber battens, and terrazzo. Emphasised is the shifting nature of light and shadow along curving surfaces and forms of walls and openings.
Peninsula House is envisioned in the round, to sit harmoniously in its setting its raw sculptural language belying its domestic use an erosional remnant of its harsh, exposed coastal setting.
Burnt Earth Beach House | Wardle
Burnt Earth Beach House is a multigenerational home that utilizes terracotta in two primary forms through the exterior brickwork, internally to line walls, floors and joinery elements. The dwelling is a haven both functionally and aesthetically, providing connection for its inhabitants to the landscape and to each other. The materials imbue the home with a sense of place further embedding the home in its context.
The broadly cruciform plan describes view lines and daylight ingress precisely. Views are to the Southern Ocean and surrounding landscape. The governing lines of the plan mark the centre point of the X as the island kitchen bench literally and figuratively the heart of this home. Spotted gum timber is used carefully in varying formats recycled (flooring), veneer (joinery) and sparingly as solid (windows and revealed structure in areas). Across two levels a variety of spaces come together for sociability and solitude.
Peninsula House | Wood Marsh Architecture
Year 9 Yuulong Campus, Ballarat Clarendon College | WBa
