This The Local Project video is sponsored by Dulux Colour Forecast,
celebrating 25 years of trend forecasting.
This is a beautiful part of Australia,
this site has had many incarnations and we stand on the shoulders of many who were here
before us including the traditional owners, the Gubbi Gubbi people. My name is Frank Macchia,
I'm the designer of Boonburrh, the home that we're in here. We're located in Little Cove,
Noosa Heads, it is a magical site, we are literally bordered by the green lush of the national park on
the Eastern side and a magnificent bay ocean with world-class surfing points on the Northern side.
We wanted to make sure that we didn't dominate this site, we wanted to make sure that we did
something that respected everything that was here before. We needed to make sure that the
home was private, secure, nurturing, comfortable, as well as being open and connected to this site.
There were challenges with that because we are on a prominent
corner and there are a lot of tourists who park here and are here every day.
So there is a number of techniques we use or ideas that we had, to keep this home discreet,
one of it was to layer it within the site, the second idea was to minimise the palette, to keep
the palette very very simple and not have too many tricky elements that are jarring and protruding.
The landscaping for this home plays a very critical role, because on the one hand we want
to feel connected to the magic of the environment that we're around but on the other hand we want
to have a sense of feeling private within our own retreat, so it's doing exactly what it needs to do.
There were many influences for the design of Boonburrh Home, fortuitously during the design
process Andrew and Catherine went on a holiday to Sri Lanka and stayed in some of Geoffrey Bawa's
homes, this gave them the confidence when they came back to create a pull-apart home.
There's a series of pavilions and the pavilions are connected by either open courtyards,
linkways or verandas, partially closed, partially opened, open to sky or glass
and we've got the perfect climate here to do that in Noosa. The other added bonus of doing this
is that these linkways, these courtyards become extra rooms that can be utilised.
The living pavilion that we're in at the moment has big panels of glass sliding doors that just
disappear and it looks like an open three-sided pavilion. Throughout the day, throughout different
times of the year, you can choose how much you shut down and how much you open up.
But the real magic in this house is the interplay and the dance between the dark and the light.
We've had a great opportunity here to elevate the main part of this house above the vegetation so
we could get the East and the Northern light coming in and at the same time by keeping the
palette dark and by having lots of timber screens that act as a veil, we're able to orchestrate the
light in a way that is quite profound. The materiality of the home is quite minimal,
we've used natural materials such as timber, which we stain dark, concrete which was also stained
dark and a lot of our fixtures and fittings have been hand-built on site with copper.
The selection of these materials were made also with an appreciation
for the wabi-sabi idea of the material becoming more beautiful as time goes on
and the hope is that this home then integrates into the site more and more over the years.
What I'm most proud of with this home is it has become what it was intended to become,
a space for a family to connect
and to come together and share wonderful moments on one of the best sites in the country.
This The Local Project video is sponsored by the 2024 Dulux Colour Forecast.
The Dulux Colour forecast for 2024 comprises three emotive palettes inspired by a desire
to convey warmth, to find joy in nostalgic references and to revel in creative storytelling.
With its rich sun-baked hues, the Solstice palette is inspired by the sun as a life
force to evoke feelings of strength and joy. The Muse palette strikes a balance between nostalgia
and contemporary design, celebrating iconic design details from the 1960s through to the 80s
and the Journey palette acknowledges the power of culture, travel and storytelling, with a nod
to eclectic bohemian charm. Dulux Colour Forecast, proudly celebrating 25 years of trend forecasting.