The cylindrical St Andrews Beach House in Victoria, Australia, designed by Austin Maynard Architects does away with unnecessary circulation space to create a laid-back communal atmosphere.
The owner of the timber holiday home wanted to buck the growing trend for large second homes in Australia. Instead they wanted a modest building that sits unobtrusively in its surroundings, nestled among the sand dunes of Mornington Peninsula.

Melbourne-based practice Austin Maynard Architects' design references the bachs of New Zealand, small beach houses or shacks typically constructed from affordable or recycled materials.
The architects said that the pared-back St Andrews Beach House was "an attempt at building a vertical hard tent rather than a holiday home".
The site for the two-storey property in St Andrews Beach borders a national park and is surrounded by wild bush, dunes and scrubland that extend all the way to the foreshore.
It is informed by the need to respect the fragile natural ecosystem by minimising the overall footprint, as well as by a desire to make the most of expansive views in all directions.

"The shape of the house grew from a response to the views and the simplification of the interior spaces," said the architecture studio, adding that the form also helps to optimise the available floor area.
"Corridors and circulation space are, in our view, a waste," they suggested. "A corridor-free home lends itself to a circular desig...