What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
The primary objective is to explore and interrogate the interplay between the internal and external beach landscape. A palette of raw concrete, glass and zinc offset with the warmth of timber and woven cane screens create an environment of contrasting ‘elegance’ and ‘rawness’, mirroring the tension of the fluidity of the sea and the stillness of the sand. Thus, there is a continual suspension between movement and stillness, internal and external. The primary joinery pieces are geometrical and solid – they interact with each other to become cabinets, cupboards, stairs, tables and spaces.

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What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
H1 House seeks to breakdown the confines of a tight inner city block by promoting the concept of shared living and green space. A dual site approach includes the development of the adjacent block and the proposed neighbouring house. H1 house was conceived as a long, low pavilion hovering above the ground plane, stretching from the street front to the rear boundary. Inverting a typical Queenslander, the house draws its circulation to the perimeter of the slender form, and promotes cross ventilation and daylight.

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What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
Avenel House is a warm, sustainable home, connected internally and externally to the dramatic landscape. Strathbogie granite, quarried from the site itself, creates a warm and tactile backdrop in several rooms and its inherent colours determined the palette of autumnal colours, with rich timber stains. Linear design elements in the living area, including the lights, concrete hearth, joinery and stone blocks, draw the eye to the exterior views. While the long recycled timber louvers on the east and west elevations impress on the interiors.

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What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
The extension to the original weatherboard cottage reinterprets and echoes the original weatherboard cottage, while maintaining its integrity. The new space consists of a living area below connected to a children’s loft, study nook, kitchen and dining area above, by a void, which forms the termination of the circulation spine extending from the existing corridor through to the extension. The addition is clad in a wide vertical steel “weatherboard”, usually used on commercial buildings, as a response to the historical and visual contexts. The original fabrics, orientation, axis of movement and, importantly, the intersection of new and old forms all drove design decisions.

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What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
The house has a simple plan, and a complex roof that creates a geometric silhouette floating in the expansive rural landscape. Once inside, floor to ceiling glass connects the main living space with the outdoors. The floating roof defines this space, flat but cut and folded to form skylights and create shade to the north. The plan is divided into three zones, the garage, the guest pavilion, and the main living pavilion. Planning is spare, and straightforward, with the majority of joinery rectilinear.

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What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
This project is inspired by the clients’ passion for connecting with their site and surrounding neighbourhood. The entrance was repositioned to bring people between old and new, into the public domain – courtyard. The semi-public zones of kitchen, living, dining and family surround this space. Movement from the yard on the street to the more intimate and private backyard transitions with slatted screening. The Toomba Avenue House demonstrates that spaces can create meaningful sequences while providing the opportunity to gather and experience the outdoors.

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Making camp in the suburbs. This title for me brings together two cultures and their ways of inhabiting this land – Aboriginal camp and European occupation. Sited at the end of a long winding cul-de-sac of standard hipped roofed suburban houses, we make camp. We protect our backs from the foul wind and cook to an open sky, sleep in a closed tent, look toward a prospect, feel earth under our feet and breath in the smells of this land.

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What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
This renovation challenges the conventional definition of interior, as well as the formulation of a residence. The ‘big (IDEA)’ was to completely reverse the general layout, putting the new kitchen in the front facing the street, capitalising on views of the open street corner and its movement. Framless glass encloses the kitchen and meal area, preserving the period feature. Translucent blinds allow the residents to see out but no one to see in.

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What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
The challenge was to maintain the northern aspect yet open the house to the views of the south. Additions to the house created a horseshoe shape, with a central grassed courtyard in the middle. Although it is large in scale the home has proportions that are suited to one person or many. Internally rustic materials such as the Tasmanian Blackwood timber floors combine with streamlined materials such as the custom designed steel bench tops. Outdoor entertaining areas are framed with stringy bark pergolas and decking.

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What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
The design focus was to create a seamless relationship between the interior and exterior living spaces while creating privacy for the owners from the surrounding homes. Concealed interior sliding doors and large exterior glass sliding doors that slide away magically into pockets, can transform the house to suit large social occasions or intimate family gatherings. A layering of warm and natural materials contrasts the cool contemporary design and creates a home rich in texture and visual stimulation. The home is an “urban oasis” to the client.

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What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
The Wonga Beach house sought to redefine the luxury retreat. An abstract composition of concrete block blade walls set in a tropical landscape defines two separate pavilions linked by a common entrance, garden courtyard and breezeway. The sumptuous interior juxtaposes raw, large scale construction, reflecting the untamed surrounds, with touches of quality furniture and artwork in key spaces. The single skin concrete block walls with expressed steel portal cyclone bracing, locally sourced cladding, single pitch roof, and elevated, louvred eastern façade all reflect the needs of build ability.

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What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
Designed as a restrained, sophisticated container, the house is arranged as a simple plan divided into two zoned pavillions. Exploring ideas of form, light and materiality, the design demonstrates a rigorous approach from formal resolution to fine detailing. In a subtle reference to the modernist glass pavilion, the structural grid is emphasised by a series of cruciform columns across the minimal façade of full height glazing contained within a concrete frame. This gesture generates extended views and a transparency that belies the mass of the house.

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What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
The update of this family dwelling to a contemporary home endows a seamless transition between inside and outside, without losing the sense of enclosure of the “rooms”. A dramatic double volume foyer leads to a house filled with light. And the glass under the floating roof and internal courtyard allow glimpses of the sky. Limewashed blackbutt flooring gives a contemporary feel, timber panelling on the walls adds warmth and selected furniture in rich primary contrasts these earthy colours.

What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
The key tactic in Tattoo House – multiple functions. Hence the kitchen bench becomes part of the stair and the deck becomes the wall and roof. The negative impact of large south facing windows is reduced with horizontal slot windows on the northern façade to permit winter sun and the use of high R value insulation. Commercial stickers reduce glare through the first floor windows and the supergraphic of images of the Edinburgh Gardens beneath creates ever-changing shadows across the interior spaces.

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