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Project Phillip Island in Victoria
Bass Strait Residence, near Melbourne, Australia – design by Modscape Architects
11 Aug 2017
Project Phillip Island
Design and build: Modscape
Location: Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
Project Phillip Island

Set on a windswept hillside overlooking Bass Strait sits a modular home that allows the epic coastal location to be experienced in all its many states.

The Phillip Island project evolved from a pragmatic response to the challenges of occupying an exposed coastal site. Winds, often extreme, shaped the design with the house acting as a barrier and protecting the external courtyard tucked in behind.
Important to the design was the organisation of internal and external living spaces to ensure they provide shelter at different times of the day and year while still allowing the amazing views to be experienced from within.

Conceptually upon approach the house is designed as two simple volumes ? one clad in pacific teak timber, the other clad in zinc. The contrasting materials will continue to change as they weather and provide a warm counterpart to the wild coastal setting. Timber wraps around the entry and garage to form an enclosed courtyard housing a pool ? a space which provides the clients with another haven from the wind. The main house, clad in zinc, stretches across the site and follows the contours of the land.

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