About 2015 AIA Queensland Architecture Awards Sunshine Coast Regional CommendationRidgeway at Sunrise is a major overhaul of a very basic beach house to create the ultimate Surfers’ Retirement Shack. The owners are avid surfers and the house had to respond to a lifestyle based around the ocean, healthy living, visiting family and friends, and entertaining with gusto! Inventive planning decisions have driven a dynamic spatial enhancement of the site creating an informal indoor/outdoor living arrangement for the clients and their numerous guests. Budgetary constraints necessitated the retention of much of the existing ‘L’ shaped house. New programme of Garage, Master Suite and outdoor entertainment were keyed into the existing siting with full respect paid to the North Eastern street front. The new street facade is architecturally treated with a functional 2-part screen of timber and aluminium. This element resolves the many issues of climate (wind, sun, rain], privacy, security, surveillance and activated spatial dynamics. An important filter to the pedestrian and vehicular street traffic, the screen alleviates the need for a fence and generously activates the streetscape and landscape.
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Long Hut by Push Architecture is a pure beach house in the tradition of simple, fun, fibro clad pavillions built on shoe string budgets. The simplicity is in the elegant plan and extruded cross sectional form. The fun is in the arrangement of the pavillion forms and their engagement of the exterior landscape and wider environment.
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Ridgeway at Sunrise is a major overhaul of a very basic beach house to create the ultimate Surfers’ Retirement Shack. The owners are avid surfers and the house had to respond to a lifestyle based around the ocean, healthy living, visiting family and friends, and entertaining with gusto!
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251 Residence by Push Architecture holds an elevated position with ocean views to the east and hinterland mountain views west. The house has been designed to be a functional family home at the coast rather than a ‘beach house’. Aesthetically, the home is modern, with materiality that embraces suburbia and with structural tectonics typical of coastal Noosa architecture.
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The Marcus Beach Residence is a substantial makeover of a 1980’s weatherboard beach holiday home. The existing house required substantial upgrading to better respond to the altered site condition of reduced privacy (increased neighbour development) and the ravages of a seaside climate, that rendered the large eastern deck unusable and much of the interiors past their expiry date.
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