Sunshine Beach House is a contemporary home inspired by the sun, surf, sand, and waves.
The house was designed by Teeland Architects for a young family of surfers with an active beach lifestyle.
The clients brief was for a family beach house that had living areas on ground opening onto garden and pool and bedrooms on the upper level.
The ground floor kitchen and living areas open onto the garden and pool.
The family can move seamlessly from house to garden, pool to beach, and back again.
Bedrooms and bathrooms are located on the more private upper level.
A refined material palette of local hardwood and white sand cement reflect the character of the local beach environment and coastal landscape.
On a practical level, the materials employed are robust in nature, to withstand sand, salt, and water coming off the ocean and little feet.
Contemporary interpretations of the traditional Queenslander metal window hoods and hardwood screens have been used to provide protection from the hot sun and summer rains.
Teeland Architects is enamoured with the beauty of the beach and ocean.
The delightful balance of repetition and variation found in the waves and sand dunes are echoed in the design of the house.
Beach houses have to withstand extreme sun, sand, salt and rain.
So the Teeland Architects’ design selected materials that require relatively little maintenance.
The housing density of Sunshine Beach is increasing.
And with the high cost of land, people to maximising their building footprints.
So there’s not a lot of soft landscaping on many of the new houses, which is creating a lack of privacy and overlooking issues.
That’s why the Teeland Architects’ team worked on the assumption that in future there would be new houses built all around their client’s property.
Their design preempted eventuality.
The design preserved their client’s amenity by focusing their views into their own garden.
And provide privacy screening for the bedrooms and bathrooms on the upper level.
Teeland Architects design their buildings to let the winter sun in and keep out the summer sun out, so the house is naturally cool in summer and warm in winter.
Natural light, ventilation, solar power, and collected rainwater are sustainability features of this house.
So was the integration of native landscape into the architecture to contribute to biodiversity and native fauna habitat.
Project Details
Project Size – 330 m2
Site Area – 500 m2
Completion Date – 2020
Building Levels – 2
Project Team
Architecture
Teeland Architects
Teeland Architects is an award winning architecture practice based in Noosa on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The firm designs high quality houses and buildings that respond to the local environment and lifestyle.
Photography
Emma Bourne
Emma is a Sunshine Coast-based photographer, specialising in interiors, property and lifestyle imagery.
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