House 28 / studio edwards
A container house on the Surf Coast in Wye River, Victoria. Designed as a weekend retreat & made from three 20ft shipping containers.
© Tony Gorsevski
Architects: studio edwards
Location: Wye River, Australia
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Tony Gorsevski
© Tony Gorsevski
Text description provided by the architects. A container house on the Surf Coast in Wye River, Victoria. Designed as a weekend retreat & made from three 20ft shipping containers.
© Tony Gorsevski
Two connect to form the living space with toilet, laundry & entry. The third a sleeping wing with two bedrooms, toilet & shower. Connected by a external deck on steel stilts which sit on deep concrete pile foundations- anchoring the house to the hillside.
© Tony Gorsevski
Internally the spaces are lined with marine plywood.?Externally insulated & clad with galvanised steel sheeting.?The northern face of the house has fixings to allow for planting wires to connect to the ground, encouraging native plants to grow over the house.
© Tony Gorsevski
The Southern facade is predominately glazed with a series of double glazed doors & windows opening onto the decking which looks southwards through the trees towards the ocean.
Detail
A green roof planted with native dichondra sits above, providing additional thermal insulation & rainwater filtration.
© Tony ...
© Tony Gorsevski
Architects: studio edwards
Location: Wye River, Australia
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Tony Gorsevski
© Tony Gorsevski
Text description provided by the architects. A container house on the Surf Coast in Wye River, Victoria. Designed as a weekend retreat & made from three 20ft shipping containers.
© Tony Gorsevski
Two connect to form the living space with toilet, laundry & entry. The third a sleeping wing with two bedrooms, toilet & shower. Connected by a external deck on steel stilts which sit on deep concrete pile foundations- anchoring the house to the hillside.
© Tony Gorsevski
Internally the spaces are lined with marine plywood.?Externally insulated & clad with galvanised steel sheeting.?The northern face of the house has fixings to allow for planting wires to connect to the ground, encouraging native plants to grow over the house.
© Tony Gorsevski
The Southern facade is predominately glazed with a series of double glazed doors & windows opening onto the decking which looks southwards through the trees towards the ocean.
Detail
A green roof planted with native dichondra sits above, providing additional thermal insulation & rainwater filtration.
© Tony ...
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