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Wildcoast House in Melbourne
21 July 2020
Wildcoast House
Design: Rachcoff Vella Architecture
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Within a deep recessive void an oversized timber door opens to present a soft, welcoming underbelly of winter beach tones and a sense of calm. Wildcoast offers refuge, a place of timeless well-crafted interiors and select fine furniture beautifully set against the wind-swept sand dunes and evocative coastal landscape.

Wildcoast is a new dwelling situated on the sand dunes on a Melbourne back beach. Inspired by the evocative coast line its materials and forms are inspired by its immediate context. Bunkered in; Wildcoast aims to protect from prevailing conditions whilst offering platforms to embrace its immediate and broader dynamic context.
The client brief was to provide an escape from busy life, a holiday home in a well known and loved place that encourages family to connect and create lifelong memories. Their love of the seasonal variation on the local back beach was the inspiration in materials and colour selection.

The challenge became to design internal spaces that could manage this variation whilst offering connected internal and external spaces protected from the elements.

During early design iterations a decision was made to horizontally offset the first floor living zone from the ground floor bedroom wing rather than stacking them vert...