Influenced by local campsites – where cooking, gathering and sleeping zones are united under a large tarpaulin – Baker Boys Beach House incorporates essential functionality in a compact footprint.
The design of Great Granny House is a direct response to the specific site characteristics where the ocean views are to the South and the prime orientation is to the North.
Previoulsy a general store, this South Melbourne terrace has been transformed into the forever home for a Melbourne couple and their two young daughters.
Such was the grace already embedded in this 1928 apartment in Bellevue Hill that it required a delicate – or apparently delicate touch.
Designed to maximise entertaining on a compact Cottesloe block, the home represents a modern way of living as an “apartment on the ground”.
The blueprint provided by HIP V HYPE’s Collaborative Development Model created the legal and financial structure that facilitated all three parties to join forces, a solution to the problem of sky-high Melbourne property prices.
To disappear to a remote house off grid requires both technology and tenacity. First there’s energy use and battery storage to consider, adequate rainwater collection and, of course, bushfire planning and design. For practice director, Simon Anderson, eight acres of native bushland in the Blue Mountains proved an irresistible temptation for research and development.
The Portsea beach house is a response to a wonderfully simple brief to create an elegant and practical family beach house. This family holiday home is located on the former rear yard of a historical school building in Portsea on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.
