HOUSE ON THE HILL

PAVILION HOUSE
MOUNT ELIZA

SCOPE OF WORKS:
New house design,
Landscape design. 
THE BRIEF:
A family of four were keen to move to the Mornington Peninsula so that they could be close to the beach, and wanted a home with personality to suit the regular entertaining that they enjoyed. They had purchased a property at Mount Eliza, on top of a hill, which afforded wonderful views and cooling bay breezes. 

They wanted the house to have a coastal, friendly ambience, where their many friends would feel welcomed, and their children would enjoy growing up amongst a house full of natural daylight.
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DESIGN RESPONSE:
Perched high upon the hill,overlooking Port Phillip Bay, the new house is composed of two pavilions, wrapped around a striking blue-tiled swimming pool in a V formation. The shape of the house was designed to provide shelter from the prevailing coastal winds for the Alfresco/ swimming pool area. One pavilion houses the living areas, and the other forms a quieter bedrooms zone for a busy family. 

Inspired by the coastal setting of the Mornington Peninsula, the house has  a distinctly "Australian" palette of materials, including sandstone + recycled native timbers, to create a timeless aesthetic. Recycled ironbark posts from an old railway bridge in NSW, where one of the owners grew up, were used around the pool and at the front to instil a connection between old and new.

HOUSE ON
THE HILL

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