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Designed by: Peter James Ahern, buck&simple
Photography by: Tim Pascoe
This home represents a case study in bespoke detail.
Realising a young family’s dream to achieve the day-to-day calm of resort living adjacent to the daily grind, complete with resort vibes and domestic ease.
Located on the traditional lands of the Kameygal people, city and district views abound as this private home descends and expands into its built oasis.
The site presented as a compact urban setting with our challenge being to conceal, direct and connect to spaces beyond.
The exterior presents to the established streetscape as an intersection of tectonic forms, mass and planes; the simple geometry provides a counterpoint to the neighbourhood’s incoherent mish mash of typologies.
Descending from street level sees glimpses of district views recede before you’re enveloped in a garden oasis shared across indoor-outdoor entertaining and lower ground living spaces.
Planar joinery conceals service and private areas of the programme, while ribbon-like concrete stairs puncture the double height void connecting and engaging across the home.
The interplay of split level geometries further belies the compact floor plan and encourages the visual borrowing of space as each level employs key vistas trained on district views, with custom skylights building connection to the sky and sense of the infinite.
A testament to the consideration of and celebration of detail, the home is built for the rigours of family life.
Beyond its physicality, the home explores the interplay of light and shadow, structure and stillness, mass and void.
These qualities shape the home’s atmosphere, creating a sanctuary of calm within the density of its urban context.
The materiality is deliberately restrained, allowing natural textures to guide the experience.
Finishes are refined, materials are limited, and form is celebrated through junctions, intersections, and edges that reveal a quiet complexity.
Subtle variations in texture catch the light throughout the day, while a restrained palette ensures a rhythmic continuity from one space to the next.
The home’s style is a product of our shared architectural experience, an iconic Australian mix of minimalism, brutalism and coastal architecture – its language could best be described as Poetic Modernism
Every surface has been considered for its haptic quality, engaging the senses through warmth and weight, smoothness and grain.
The stair, a sculptural moment within the void, hovers above the floor below; the seemingly missing anchor point in contrast to the home’s grounded solidity.
Throughout, architectural devices create a measured slowness – a deliberate flow of movement, a quiet rhythm of compression and release.
Key viewpoints frame borrowed landscapes, drawing the eye beyond the immediate, connecting the inhabitant to sky, horizon, and distant greenery.
Beneath its refinement lies a structure designed for longevity, performance and comfort.
Cross ventilation and passive thermal strategies allow for effortless temperature regulation, while controlled apertures guide the transition of light through the spaces.
The landscape is interwoven throughout, a mediator between architecture and environment, softening thresholds and extending the experience of living into the natural realm.
The result is a home that feels effortless, yet is deeply considered.
A place of balance, where design elevates the everyday, where stillness and movement, light and shade, weight and air find their resolution in a seamless whole.
Find more design ideas and inspiration at trendsideas.com
Credit List
ArchitectPeter James Ahern, buck&simple | BuilderProstruct |
Structural engineerAcroyali Engineering | Kitchen designerbuck&simple |
Interior designerbuck&simple | LandscapeBates Landscape |
CladdingAbodo | Main flooringScala Travertine, crazy pave, from Eco Outdoor |
Bathroom tilesTravertine, from Evo Tile & Stone | FireplaceReal Flame |
Living area furniture/dining table & chairsMCM House | AwardsTrends International Design Awards (TIDA) Homes – Highly Commended |
This home represents a case study in bespoke detail.
Realising a young family’s dream to achieve the day-to-day calm of resort living adjacent to the daily grind, complete with resort vibes and domestic ease.
Located on the traditional lands of the Kameygal people, city and district views abound as this private home descends and expands into its built oasis.
The site presented as a compact urban setting with our challenge being to conceal, direct and connect to spaces beyond.
The exterior presents to the established streetscape as an intersection of tectonic forms, mass and planes; the simple geometry provides a counterpoint to the neighbourhood’s incoherent mish mash of typologies.
Descending from street level sees glimpses of district views recede before you’re enveloped in a garden oasis shared across indoor-outdoor entertaining and lower ground living spaces.
Planar joinery conceals service and private areas of the programme, while ribbon-like concrete stairs puncture the double height void connecting and engaging across the home.
The interplay of split level geometries further belies the compact floor plan and encourages the visual borrowing of space as each level employs key vistas trained on district views, with custom skylights building connection to the sky and sense of the infinite.
A testament to the consideration of and celebration of detail, the home is built for the rigours of family life.
Beyond its physicality, the home explores the interplay of light and shadow, structure and stillness, mass and void.
These qualities shape the home’s atmosphere, creating a sanctuary of calm within the density of its urban context.
The materiality is deliberately restrained, allowing natural textures to guide the experience.
Finishes are refined, materials are limited, and form is celebrated through junctions, intersections, and edges that reveal a quiet complexity.
Subtle variations in texture catch the light throughout the day, while a restrained palette ensures a rhythmic continuity from one space to the next.
The home’s style is a product of our shared architectural experience, an iconic Australian mix of minimalism, brutalism and coastal architecture – its language could best be described as Poetic Modernism
Every surface has been considered for its haptic quality, engaging the senses through warmth and weight, smoothness and grain.
The stair, a sculptural moment within the void, hovers above the floor below; the seemingly missing anchor point in contrast to the home’s grounded solidity.
Throughout, architectural devices create a measured slowness – a deliberate flow of movement, a quiet rhythm of compression and release.
Key viewpoints frame borrowed landscapes, drawing the eye beyond the immediate, connecting the inhabitant to sky, horizon, and distant greenery.
Beneath its refinement lies a structure designed for longevity, performance and comfort.
Cross ventilation and passive thermal strategies allow for effortless temperature regulation, while controlled apertures guide the transition of light through the spaces.
The landscape is interwoven throughout, a mediator between architecture and environment, softening thresholds and extending the experience of living into the natural realm.
The result is a home that feels effortless, yet is deeply considered.
A place of balance, where design elevates the everyday, where stillness and movement, light and shade, weight and air find their resolution in a seamless whole.
Find more design ideas and inspiration at trendsideas.com
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Credit List
ArchitectPeter James Ahern, buck&simple | BuilderProstruct |
Structural engineerAcroyali Engineering | Kitchen designerbuck&simple |
Interior designerbuck&simple | LandscapeBates Landscape |
CladdingAbodo | Main flooringScala Travertine, crazy pave, from Eco Outdoor |
Bathroom tilesTravertine, from Evo Tile & Stone | FireplaceReal Flame |
Living area furniture/dining table & chairsMCM House | AwardsTrends International Design Awards (TIDA) Homes – Highly Commended |
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