On the land of the Garigal people.<\/i><\/p>
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The\n Tree House is hidden within a shared bushland valley in Bayview on \nSydney’s Northern Beaches. It is a remarkable site for the steep \ntopography, intact bushland, diverse ecology, and almost complete \nprivacy. <\/p>
The clients bought the site with full \nappreciation of both the challenges and opportunities it offered. They \nmet the site with an equally ambitious and unequivocal brief. The house \nwas to support plant, animal and human life in this special environment.\n It was to integrate and honour the landscape rather than altering it. \nIt was to minimise the use of resources in construction and occupation. \n <\/p>
Materially, the house is required to be tough \nexternally due to the high level bushfire threat (BAL FZ for all \nfacades). It is clad in 3mm sheet Corten steel and skirted by suspended\n galvanised steel grated walkways and decks. <\/p>
Internally, where timber is permitted, the house is lined in birch ply and blackbutt. <\/p>
Notably,\n there is a conscious effort to reduce the use of coatings internally \nand externally to an absolute minimum. Cladding, walkways and landscape \nwalls are all unpainted. Internally, all timber is coated in plant based\n oils and waxes. There is virtually no paint in the house. There is no \nuse of chrome.<\/p>
At a broader level, the house seeks to \nengage with a series of increasingly relevant questions about how an \nAustralian house can respond thoughtfully to the natural environment, \ngiven the growing number of natural threats and the rapidly expanding \nregulatory network controlling the way that buildings facing natural \nthreats are constructed.<\/p>
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Project Team – Matt Elkan, Daina Cunningham <\/p>
Builder – Avalon Constructions – Russ Davis <\/p>
Landscape Architect – Lindy Hulton Larson
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Engineer (Structural and Hydraulic) – Simon Mabb – NB Consulting Engineers <\/p>
Joinery – David Krajancic (Elysium Concepts), Fine Earth Joinery<\/p>
Photographs – Clinton Weaver
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2019 MBA NSW Winner New House \$2.0m-\$2.5m (Avalon Constructions)<\/p>
2020 NSW Architecture Awards - Commendation for Residential Architecture - Houses (New)<\/p>
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Green Magazine - Issue 74<\/p>
Sanctuary Magazine - Issue 47<\/p>
House Magazine - Issue 147 <\/p>
Shelter Stream - https://www.shelter.stream/page/get-started/?from=/plans-check.html
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