Killora Bay Home / Lara Maeseele + Tanner Architects
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Killora Bay House / Lara Maeseele + Tanner Architects
![Killora Bay House / Lara Maeseele + Tanner Architects, © Adam Gibson](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/61e5/9f33/bcfa/3101/659e/e150/newsletter/dscf0844.jpg?1642438567)
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Text description provided by the architects. Overlooking the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Killora Bay is a seasonal holiday home designed for a young family and friends. The house siting and form is heavily conditioned by its delicate environmental setting. Populated by a dense canopy of Tasmanian White Gums and stands of Grass Trees, the site is a sanctuary for the Forty Spotted Pardalote. This necessitated a planning condition limiting the building envelope to a predetermined site and 18m diameter ‘footprint’ on the southern corner of the site – which shares a boundary to the road behind.
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These conditions consolidate the planning response, resulting in a building ‘in- the-round’. The proximity of the established stands of white gum, aspect and slope establish a series of adjacencies, which serve to highlight certain interior relationships, and modes of seasonal occupation within the broader site.
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The approach to the house is from down-slope, through dense forest and undergrowth. The house emerges through fragmentary glimpses, as a monumental and elemental built form. The exterior is durably and directly detailed, clad in bushfire-resistant and locally sourced Silver-Top Ash, stained dark, and glazing is set flush to the façade – reflecting the surrounding white gum forest. The exterior palette also serves to ‘silhouette’ the house within its forested site.
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The house is designed to accommodate multiple families at once, in separately serviced wings, and in various modes of occupation within individual rooms. The plan is entered centrally, by a generous foyer at the centre, which bisects the interior into separate occupiable pavilions. This foyer serves as a generous verandah, for dealing with coats, shoes, surfboards and sand, and provides additional covered play-space. The exterior cladding continues as a lining into this entry area, concealing joinery elements within the depth of the walls and easing the transition between interior and exterior.
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The primary living area is accessed directly from the entry and is oriented with the slope, toward a northern aspect. The internal and external kitchen areas are positioned to reorient the views toward the north-west, through the forest across Killora Bay. The interior is furnished by a series of ordering joinery elements, which ‘wrap’ to incorporate a wood-fire hearth, and deep window seats, allowing more intimate modes of occupying the margin of the plan – and framing specific views. These ‘rooms-within-rooms’ are places for reading, prospect, games and conversation, but also activate a series of adjacencies between the interior and the exterior, which are further emphasised by subtle shifts in the floor plane.
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Sleeping areas are located on the western and eastern orientation. These elevations manage privacy and ventilation through a series of shutters and roof windows. Within the bathrooms, these roof-windows frame the entire extent of the room, creating a ceiling from the adjacent White Gum canopy, and allowing direct and diffused sunlight to illuminate the space. This strategy is furthered in the bedrooms, with skylights carefully positioned above beds – allowing glances of morning light into the corners of the room, and sleep under star-lit skies.
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