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Marysville House replaces a three-bedroom holiday home destroyed in the Black Saturday Fires of 2009, designed as a year-round retreat for a family of four. The brief was initially ambitious: a double-storey residence with three bedrooms, a generous communal dining and living area, two bathrooms and a detached studio. The planning process steered the project somewhere quieter.
Restraint became the design strategy. The early scheme was pared back to a single enlarged studio comprising one communal room, utilities and a mezzanine sleeping platform. The form takes its cue from a remote mountain lodge, sitting at ease within its bushland setting rather than competing with it.
A compact footprint reduced material wastage and construction labour, and it has continued to pay back through better thermal performance across the building's life. The result reads as effortless: a small holiday house that connects to its environment with simplicity and ease.
Designed in conjunction with Damien Thackray of terminus studio. Photography by Brendan Finn.
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- Building Levels: 1
- Completion Date: 2011
- Photographer: Brendan Finn
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