Futurist Architecture

This house has a non-standard, characteristic house shape. The use of a quadrant motif can make this house reacts to the sun location. For this motif, an old device used to create a good position of the stars. A terrace is also designed to follow the sun movements by giving inhabitants sitting and allowing more sunlight into the interior in winter.

The architect uses resilient and robust materials like a coastal site. The house has rugged and raw tones and textures, creating a beautiful look as they age. The skillion comes in a radially-sawn Silvertop Ash form that can grey over time. This house is also designed with felled timber to celebrate the rough grain and minimize wastage.

The landscape and architecture are merged, creating an engaging and playful space which is spiritual and also calming. Most of the buildings are prefabricated, allowing the period of construction to be shorter. The design develops as a system for the building that can be used on some sites such as flood plains, coastal areas, and lakes.

In this house, the daylight can be brought into the basement area by inserting the patio of the left area. It makes some living spaces can be accommodated too inside the ‘living’ cellar of the house. The resident also can have direct access to the garden and terrace from the patio through the outside staircase.

This home is also designed with a combination of cooling strategies and passive heating when the season changes. The architect uses high-efficiency glazing too with controls and equipment, including recycled and harvested sustainably materials. The result makes this house friendly for the environment around it.

Besides designing a place to house all art collection of the owner, this project is also about creating an open and comfortable family space. This space is also designed with a good connection to the outdoor area of the house and the spacious outdoor deck. The same concrete material is also used to design the floor part of the deck, including the outdoor staircase.

There is deep penetration in Dawesville House of warming winter sun the space of main living room inside. The architect places the lovered windows in order to capture the sea breeze in the afternoon, used as a summer cooling. On the timber-framed walls, a multi-layered insulation barrier is installed and the 3kW solar array can minimize the environmental footprint in this house.

With the simple rectangular plan format, the bedrooms and wet areas are places on the west side to the living space (east side).  Some details are added into the small master bedroom with the concrete block walls, contrasting white plasterboard, and also plywood partition. The kid’s bedrooms have elevated sleeping platforms coated with plywood, providing a useable space to put a full-width study desk.

All decking in Bush House is designed from recycled jarrah that milled from large warehouse roof beams. The ceiling linings are made from Australian Hoop pine and finished with linseed oil in a simple way. The plywood ceiling extends to the outside area of the decks and eaves, creating an indoor-outdoor comfortable feeling.

The architect has a detail discussion with Pamela to design some best features for this house. After the completed project, today this modern farmhouse has sustainable features that consist of hot water made from a solar hot water system, a water saving, passive design with good ventilation, active heating with wood fireplace, active cooling with Hunter Pacific Concept ceiling fans, and also bright green lighting.

For energy efficiency, the large areas from low emissivity glass are limited by the sized horizontal shades for making sure that the winter sun can penetrate onto the charcoal pigmented floor. The louvered ventilation slots are combined with the larger sliding doors to exhaust any build-up of hot air in summer.