Flinders beach house

The brief was to design a holiday home which would become a semi permanent home in the future. Designed by Melbourne based studio Inarc Architects the building sits on top of an escarpment in the seaside township of Flinders drinking up the vast views over the often rugged coast of Bass Strait. The site is located on a transition point between on a landslip-affected site, which is also where the site views are at their best. Deep bored piers anchor the building to the crest of the allotment at ground floor level whilst at the upper level, the floor plate cantilevers over the steep terrain below. The cantilevered corners of the living room and main bedroom give the feeling of detachment from the building, a feeling of leaning over the edge. The simple palette of the external materials continues inside simple elegant and relaxed. Grey tiled floors, blackbutt floor boards, and chocolate brown wall panels reinforce the subdued internal experience and the ever changing external colours.

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