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Killora Bay is located on the north of Bruny Island. The site itself is located
on the slope above Killora Bay overlooking the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. The site has beautiful,
long, tall grass trees. We fell in love with the bush and I think for us it was always about
the forest, embracing the trees and living very privately in this delicate environment.
It's a very special place, it's like you leave your normal life behind and wherever you go
everything is just wild and still untouched.
Because it's such a delicate environment the site came with certain restrictions.
The site came with a clearing and the clearing came with a predetermined building zone
which determined the scale of the building. With a small floor plan comes the need for flexibility
and so in the bedrooms we opted for fold out beds so you can actually fold them up and they're part
of a joinery wall, they disappear and so the rooms can be used for different functions.
I really believe that the restrictions helped design.
All the building elements are made to work hard because of that.
Often a building element has multiple functions and every inch of the floor plan works.
As you approach you get welcomed in this external courtyard which invites you in.
You are immediately greeted into this beautiful foyer. As you go around the corner you are greeted
with a more generous social space with high ceilings to give it that more generous feel.
The light in the shack is actually one of my favourite things.
You wake up in the east with the morning sun and you follow the sunshine and the shading of the
trees. Those shadows are ever changing they just keep moving which is really beautiful.
We opted for frameless skylights in the wet area. The skylights catch your eye up to the canopy
above and it feels like you're having a shower outdoor which is amazing. It's always a light
place to be and I think the greenery around it on a beautiful rainy day makes it even more intense.
We opted for sliding doors in the main living area just to embrace and open up
the shack to the outdoors. On a rainy day you could even open up the doors,
sit sheltered in the dining room but still feel like you're half outside.
The material palette we kept really simple, we really wanted the landscape to speak
not the architecture and so we chose materials that work well within the landscape.
We really try to do as much as we could ourselves so it goes from sourcing the
timber locally to air drying it to making sure that it was up to the bushfire regulations.
The same for the concrete we really try to do everything in one pour of concrete. The floors
in the bathroom, the kitchen splashback, the kitchen bench but also the vanities in
the laundry and the bathrooms they're all poured out of white concrete that lifted all in one go.
The shack actually feels like it silhouettes within the forest and so the dark stained
silver top ash looked great but also served really well as bushfire resistant cladding.
We also used white concrete to counteract the darkness of the dark cladding, the white
concrete it's quite a raw finish and so it's very earthy. I think when it came to materials
we really wanted to make those subtle decisions with soft pastel colours, dark timber tones.
Everything was inspired by the landscape around it.
My favourite part of the house is definitely the feeling that when you're here you are connected
with nature. To be able to build within such a delicate landscape where it's all about the
bird life and the beautiful tall grass trees, it's so special but it's also so precious.
For us to be able to enjoy it like we do is pretty incredible.
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