Bourne + Blue Architecture

Blueys Beach House 5

Blueys Beach House 5

BLUEYS BEACH HOUSE 5

Bourne + Blue Architecture

BUDGET
$500K - 1M

SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Blueys Beach, Australia

CTEGORY
Residential › Private House

Blueys Beach is a popular holiday destination, on the Mid North Coast of NSW.

Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5

The original houses in this coastal village are simple fibro or weatherboard structures.They are weather beaten and basic, yet they generally offer a relaxing beach holiday experience.

Unfortunately, when properties change hands, original buildings are often replaced by large suburban houses, which have little recognition of place and relate poorly to the immediate context

Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5

This house was designed on an empty but narrow (12m x 42m) block.

The site slopes gently down to the rear, and there are established houses on neighboring blocks.

The client’s brief was for a simple holiday house that created it’s own amenity on the site.It must not be ostentatious and must fit in well with the context.

Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5

There should be an easy transition from the beach to the house and surfaces are to be hardy so that durability is not a concern.

The built form is articulated into a series of linked massing elements, under a consistent roof form which falls towards the site boundaries (creating a low roof edge facing the street and adjacent property).

Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5

The building mass is broken up through careful window placement (including some recessed windows to the south-west and south-east elevation), deep recesses in the street elevation to form the entry door and carport, a roof void corresponding to the garden in the centre of the front pavilion, and a large roofed deck separating the main pavilion and the rear bedroom pavilion.

The living spaces open easily to the deck in the sun, or the shaded deck and the ‘carport’ is ostensibly a roofed outdoor area for hammocks or games.

Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5

Much of the living space on the site is actually outside the buildings, in the courtyard or on decks.This works well with the indoor / outdoor nature of visiting here.

Materials throughout relate to the context of the village, are economical and corrosion resistant.

Timber is used extensively, floors are all polished concrete internally. Eaves and wall linings are fibre cement.

Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5

Sustainable features –Correctly orientated thermal mass.

Heavy insulation to walls and ceilings, Rainwater harvesting for wc, laundry, garden usage, minimal footprint to building, using less materials and resources, sustainable timber use such as reconstituted timber concealed structure, Heat Pump hot water technology

Blueys Beach House 5


Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5


Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5
Blueys Beach House 5

Bourne + Blue Architecture
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Bourne + Blue Architecture
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