Fish Creek House, Victoria Residential Development, Australia Residence, Architecture Images
Fish Creek House in Victoria
Contemporary Australian Home – design by Edition Office, Architects
17 Nov 2016
Fish Creek House
Architects: Edition Office
Location: Fish Creek, Victoria, Australia
Fish Creek House

The house sits firmly along a winding ridgeline on the outskirts of the small township of Fish Creek. The home surrounds itself in a highly textured brickwork wall in response to its exposed position to strong local winds and a nearby country road.

This long wall wraps the three nested, black timber pavilions of the house like a rough and coarse blanket and offers them shelter while they sit upon the lower wall edge and gaze out upon the undulating and extraordinary coastline of Wilsons Promontory. The three pavilions are pulled out from each other and from the northern edge of the rough brick wall to allow sunlight to slide deep into a series of sheltered and planted courtyards that offer immediate garden and deck relationships to the interior spaces. These interiors provide a warm and robust palette of timber-lined walls, black-pigmented concrete floors and black form-ply ceilings.
Sustainability

The concrete slab which incorporates a fly-ash & waste slag blend incorporates hydronic heating via the kitchen wood-fired oven/stove, which also boosts the solar hot-water system. Passive design utilises solar gains, protects the house from harsh winds and allows...