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I'm Jeremy, I'm Scott and we're the directors of Eldridge Anderson Architects
and this is our Jan Juc Studio project,
which functions as my own house and my family's house and also our studio space.
Jan Juc's about an hour and a half south of Melbourne, a surfing community predominantly.
Lots of small fibro beach shacks that are now in the process of being redeveloped,
we lived in a little house on this property for a number of years.
One of the things we're drawn to was the idea of living under the gum trees.
The exterior is probably quite subtle, doesn't give a lot away and then as
you sort of open up the front entry door, the rich timbers are revealed,
the double height volume starts to reveal itself.
There's the more quiet reflective spaces towards the south, so the bedroom areas
and then obviously upstairs there's an office space.
Because there's no walls that sort of touch the external walls,
every room can be actually open to the next room so they flow into each other,
these elements are things that we really were keen to interact with.
So the house itself isn't enormous but I guess it's been one of our
interests in some of the other projects as well is to maximize what we're using.
The definition between circulation space and room space is sort of a little bit
more overlapped, so those things have all sort of combined in
quite a special way I think. It's not just how it operates but it's how it looks and how it feels.
Screens actually make up the entire perimeter of the house, they can be completely slid
away to open to the landscape and as you're adjusting them for privacy or depending on the
weather you're also changing the lighting levels and what's reflected or diffused.
That subtle activation
gives a sense of life rather than one shape or a form that is the same all the time.
And in terms of the materiality of it, the timber battens are pre-aged and
we actually did that ourselves over a number of months, they've taken on
this sort of silvery quality which also helps pick up on some of the landscaping elements.
And then further to that, the actual structure itself. The doors, the floor is all recycled
blackbutt, the blackbutt itself actually has a rich blondie sort of quality to it.
The builders were real craftsmen on this project, they took real pride in their work,
the connections, the way that the timber's all detailed, it's quite a beautiful thing.
We actually started the design process while we were travelling through Japan,
the proportion of the building, the finish of the materials, the really sharp
connection to the inside and outside, those sort of things are elements that
we picked up on and I suppose subtly referenced in this house.
It didn't seem appropriate to build a house that took up the whole site
and it's nice to let this landscape flow from one site to the next.
We don't have a deck as such in this house, but the entire space is actually
a deck when you slide the doors back, which gives that ability internally to
just sit above the landscape and sort of survey the landscape,
and it also becomes a backdrop for the shadows and the shapes of the vegetation around it.
On a day like today where we've got beautiful sun pouring in from the north, it's quite still, we're
approaching winter here and we've got sun deep into the building filtering through the leaves,
filtering through the batons. There's a poetic sort of quality to the way the sun dances through
the building and changes through the day, it's quite a peaceful thing to be so connected to that.
I think one of the aspects I'm most proud of this project
is probably the architectural clarity that we've achieved,
it's something that we've probably been refining and striving for over a number of years.
The humble presence of the house I think is a real success especially down here and there's a
lot of development along the coast but this place maintains a composure rather than a lot of moves.
It's a singular idea that we feel like we executed in quite a refined way
which is something that we're quite proud of.
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