Luigi Rosselli Architects

Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod

Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod

Luigi Rosselli Architects

Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod

PROJECT ARCHITECT
Raffaello Rosselli

DESIGN ARCHITECT
Luigi Rosselli

INTERIOR DESIGNER
Raffaello Rosselli And The Client

STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT
 Rooney & Bye Pty Ltd

BUILDER
 Building With Options Pty Ltd

JOINER
Bwo Fitout And Interiors

ASSISTING ARCHITECTS
 Gianfranco Panza, Sean Johnson

PHOTOGRAPHY
 Prue Roscoe, Edward Birch

STATUS
Built

AREA
3000 Sqft - 5000 Sqft

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Tamarama, Australia

TYPE
Residential › Private House

Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod

Tama’ is short for Tamarama: a Sydney beach suburb, famous for its hedonistic surf culture, gradually being gentrified by a population that exchanges stock market tips while running barefoot to the ocean with a surfboard tucked under their arms.

Geographically characterised by steep escarpments that surround the beach (far narrower than its near neighbours at Bondi and Bronte), the homes that cling to Tamarama’s hillsides are a mishmash of ticky-tacky boxes left by the previous generation of beach bunnies, now dwindled by skin carcinomas.

Tama’s Tee Home was constructed on what was solid and reusable from the previous house.

Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod

Approximately fifty-percent of the previous structure was kept, including the large sandstone retaining wall to the front of the home and the garage beneath.

The new concrete ‘Tee’ structure to the front of the house was designed so that it would rest on the single point of the garage structure below that would bear the weight; this explains the ‘unipod’ shape to the front façade of the home and the need to provide it with a solid concrete structure.

Ocean side architecture must be designed and constructed with very weather resistant materials: the salt, humidity and wind are implacable agents of rapid decay.

Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod

If used properly, concrete is quite resistant to such seaside aggression. Marine grade roofing materials and stainless steel fixings are necessary in this position.

To adapt to the hillside the house was built over four storeys.

Located on level three, the main living area benefits from ocean views to the northeast and a sheltered terrace to the northwest side that is protected from the strong coastal winds.

Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod

Project Architect, Raffaello Rosselli provided his own detailing and material palette interpretation for a refined beach house, embracing natural materials, exposed roof framing and light finishes that are washed by dappled and ever changing light that filters through custom designed shutters.


Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod
Tama's Tee Home - A Coastal Concrete Unipod

Luigi Rosselli Architects
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Luigi Rosselli Architects
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