Marine by Bryant Alsop combines the simplicity and nostalgia of a fundamental seashore residence, with all the creature comforts of a sensible family residence.
‘The current circa Nineteen Eighties residence was constructed as a simple and cost-effective trip residence,’ Bryant Alsop architect and director Sarah Bryant says of the home sooner than the renovation.
It was initially purchased as a super weekend escape for a pair and their 4 youthful youngsters. Nevertheless when Victoria’s Covid 19 lockdowns began, the family found themselves spending rather more time proper right here than initially deliberate.
Deciding to take up coastal dwelling full-time, the home house owners engaged Bryant Alsop to broaden the 158-square-metre floorplan into what’s now their serene, eternal residence.
‘One of the best drawback — exterior of delivering a endeavor through lockdowns — was in elevating the easy, nevertheless reliable, genuine residence,’ Sarah says.
‘We might have favored to recognise the sturdy bones and convey the essence of the distinctive dwelling once more to this, sooner than attempting in order so as to add additional developing. This took us down a path the place horizontal views took precedence, and longer, lower areas dominated.’
The first dwelling area was retained and opened on two sides, bringing further northern mild into the middle of the home with large residence home windows framing views of the surrounding tree canopies.
As well as they relocated the kitchen to create a central space for the family to gather spherical a terrazzo-topped island bench.
A model new 180-square-metre wing containing the kids’s bedrooms and a rumpus room was added to the prevailing residence, linked by two prolonged hallways impressed by the proprietor’s childhood recollections of visiting ‘louvred’ seashore properties as a toddler.
‘These “breezeways” can be completely opened as a lot as allow for terrific connection to the agricultural, coastal panorama previous and be part of the proprietor to her childhood seashore residence recollections,’ Sarah offers.
‘They hope the areas create the an identical recollections for his or her very personal kids rising up in a free and pure setting.’
Together with tapping into these nostalgic architectural components from the earlier, the surrounding gum-lined panorama was pivotal to the home’s redesign. The provides palette of robust blackbutt timber and textural tiles anchors the house all through the encircling bushland, together with to its coastal character.
Sarah says the following residence balances earlier and present, reflecting the interval of change many have felt over the last few years.
It’s a reimagined family residence, for a reimagined lifestyle.