The Pacific Road House located in Palm Beach, Sydney, has in it the perfect design elements to invite every resident to explore and indulge in the outdoors. Wide windows and open walls in this creation of the Tanner Kibble Denton Architects ensure that every living space in the house is connected to the nature outside.
The house is located among a stand of angophoras. It consists of a cottage and new pavilion connected via a sinuous covered walkway. The ample trees around the house provide a private, sheltered landscape, ideal for a holiday home.
Sandstone has been used in the construction of this weekender which has been extended to provide a new, modern kitchen and excellent bathroom facilities.
The house plan is such that light is allowed to penetrate deep into the construction. The different colored walls of give each living space a different color and therefore different mood. Apart from the sandstone, the palette of the house is also constituted by the stained red cedar (used in the cladding) which, in course of time, will weather to give a muted grey color. `
The spaces within the house are crisp and minimal. The two-level house has living areas, sleeping areas, a library/study and a double-sided, open fireplace. The joinery has been made in American Oak while the pavilion and its extensions have been topped with steel-edged roofs. The crisp eaves of the roof seem to float above the walls giving the house the appearance of a lighted lantern at night, when viewed from above.
