‘E’ House - Modern Design Three Parallel Living Zones by Cox Architects

‘E’ House is the ‘exemplar’ house of the highly anticipated Elysium Noosa project. Elysium is distinguished by involvement of twelve leading Australian architects each designing six houses in its first stage. The architects include Gabriel Poole, Richard Kirk, Elizabeth Watson Brown, Lahz Nimmo and Bligh Voller Nield. Cox Rayner Architects were given the role of ‘master architect’ to interface between the architects, design the streets and parks, and design the Elysium Community Centre.

The concept for the house was to generate a subtropical living environment that would mature to become intrinsic with its heavily forested setting. Timber was selected as the material best suited to achieve this objective, adaptable as it is from structure to surface to joinery. Insitu and natural rendered concrete are used sparingly to relate the house to the vocabulary of park structures which are predominantly timber and concrete.

The house comprises three parallel living zones (hence the title ‘E’ House) - one its north-facing loggia, the next a series of interconnected living zones that open to the loggia with bedrooms above, and the third comprising utility and vertical connection spaces. This layering of spaces is dramatized and articulated by internal voids and by expressed elements such as window boxes, built-in seats and screens, for which timber is eminently pliable. The result is a series of flexible, fluid spaces in which timber is utilised to ‘craft’ specific elements.

While the concealed structure is treated pine, the primary visible timber used is Spotted Gum for its versatility, workability and ageing characteristics for cladding, screens, visible structure, joinery, flooring, ceiling and wall linings. Also chosen for its high environmental rating as a renewable Australian hardwood species, the Spotted Gum exterior is coated with CUTEK Wood Preservative which has been developed to resist surface decay yet permit gradual patina over time. An associated aim was to dispel the myth that timber entails repeated maintenance.

‘E’ House is a rigorous exploration of the simultaneous virtues and capabilities of timber to articulate space both as structure and skin, to integrate architecture into its natural environment, to express intimacy through modulation and variation, and to contribute to environmental sustainability. Designed by Cox Architects.

Timbeerwah House Design: Contemporary Lifestyle by Bark Design Architects

This Timbeerwah House design contains two main interconnected, steel framed volumes for living and sleeping, perched high on the site to take in broad views of the pacific coastline with the forested hinterland in the foreground. The main spaces step down and run with the natural topography, connecting in section via the double height living and northern pool deck space, whilst a separate silver shed art studio project out across the fail of the slope, creating a sout lit, polywood lined space for painting, high in the trees.

Taking some cues in architectural language from the adjacent Bark Studio, the house explore case study ideas of expressing a legibility of construction, with simple clean space contained by a series a steel portal frames and glazing, in contrast with economic modules of lightweight sheet and hardwood chamferboard cladding.

The building has been designed to maximise passive temperature and ventilation through cross ventilation and stack effect principles. It minimises the need for artificial mechanical systems for lighting, ventilation, heating and cooling.

The house explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and intregating indoor / outdoor spaces within dynamic patterns of light and shadow, being a simple frame to enable a contemporary lifestyle. Designed by Bark Design Architects.

Modern Wooden House Brazilian in Finland

Villa Isabilla built with wooden finished offer the modern and beauty of a Brazilian wooden house in Finland. Interiors are a reflection of the house surrounding exterior – woody, rocky and earthy – only with a decidedly refined touch. Modern wooden house Villa Isabella projected by Brasil Arquitetura. The building standing with structures, spatial concepts, constructional principles, use of materials and relationships with nature and urbanity, shared with Finnish architectural practice, through its materiality which always keeps in mind the aspect of aging and weathering in the severe Finnish climates, it mimics the forest, camouflaged, yet never withdrawing itself completely. The building displays a personality of its own in between the bleak and untouched nature, without imposing itself onto her. Its integration into the landscape will be orchestrated according to the seasons, to varying light conditions and functional circumstances, and the experience of the materials, colours and structural elements will be transformed. Via