Built by Paterson Buildings, together with engineering by SDA Structures Pty Ltd and landscaping by Pangkarra Landscape Design, Breezeway House is located on a challenging and multi-faceted site. The significant cross-fall and cross-easements, with complicated and non-traditional trapezoidal boundaries within which to work, meant that the proposed home needed to either conceal or express these elements. Through a mixture of both approaches, the structural grid creates a rhythm throughout, and the arrangement of spatial expression naturally followed suit. Clad in charred tongue and groove timber, the external and structural materiality is expressed both inside and out, with exposed fine metal detailing throughout.
Breezeway House by David Boyle Architect
Responding to the coastal milieu, Breezeway House is designed as a place of escape, where the movement of people, air and light inspire the openness and connectedness of its comprising parts. Imagined with a sense of permanence and robustness to weather its tough and rugged conditions, concrete and timber come together to provide the foundations for the free-flowing movement of its occupants. Located in New South Wales’ MacMasters Beach, the geometrically challenging site is met with a rigor and dynamism. David Boyle Architect combines the poetry of the unique site with an exacting approach, creating a refined escape.
Responding to the coastal milieu, Breezeway House is designed as a place of escape, where the movement of people, air and light inspire the openness and connectedness of its comprising parts. A home inspired by movement, Breezeway House is a robust and dynamic coastal home that responds with rigor to its geometrically challenging site. David Boyle Architect combines the rationality and permanence of architecture with the whimsy of ideology to propose the ultimate escape.
David Boyle Architect has combined the aspirational and playful, in a robust and resilient form.
Providing a sense of protection from the elements, the expressed concrete, timber and recycled brick all come together to create a low maintenance and refined coastal abode. Breezeway House celebrates movement through, within and outward from its bounding (and sliding) walls and makes the complicated site it sits upon appear resolved. David Boyle Architect has combined the aspirational and playful, in a robust and resilient form.
Built by Paterson Buildings, together with engineering by SDA Structures Pty Ltd and landscaping by Pangkarra Landscape Design, Breezeway House is located on a challenging and multi-faceted site.
- Photograph Brett Boardman
- Source The Local Project
