Ozone Ofuro
On the land of the Gayamagal people.
Ozone Ofuro is a small private bath house and
retreat in the garden of a previous project by Incidental Architecture, the Ozone House. It was conceived as a means of inhabiting this
garden.
Materially, Ozone Ofuro is built on an exposed rock shelf with walls made out of rocks gathered entirely from the site. The intention is that the structure grows loosely out of what was already there.
Functionally, it is a two ‘room’ semi enclosed screened space that can be shut down completely for privacy or opened fully to engage with the landscape and surrounding decks. There is a higher space housing an enclosed tiled bath that can take up to four people. In the lower decked space is an ante room which can be used for dressing, warming, or looking into the garden. More significantly though, it is also a place of quietness and solitude.
It is a structure that could be seen as unnecessary. Yet, perhaps this extension beyond the pragmatic into the poetic is what actually makes it necessary.
Project Team : Matt Elkan, Sam Horspool
Builder : Karinya Constructions
Engineer : SDA Structures
Photographs : Clinton Weaver
Awards
2024 MBA NSW Housing - Alterations < $400k - Winner (Karinya Const)
