A family house in the Noosa hinterland that connects to the ground and opens to the bush, ocean, stars and sky.

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Architects: teeland architects

Location: Noosa Shire, Australia

Architects In Charge: David Teeland, Kim Jong Sook, Jenna Hawting, Monique Watt

Area: 260.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Jared Fowler

© Jared Fowler

Text description provided by the architects. A family house in the Noosa hinterland that connects to the ground and opens to the bush, ocean, stars and sky.

© Jared Fowler

The house is designed as an operable glass pavilion that is wrapped in sliding hardwood screens, so the owners can control the light, breezes, privacy and views.  In winter, they can slide open the screens to let the winter sun in.  In summer, they can close the screens to provide shade, while still maintaining views and breezes through the timber battens.
Floor Plan

With steep hinterland sites, it is easy for the house to end up high above the natural ground and lose your connection to the earth. With young children, the owners were eager to be able to step from the house directly into the garden. So, working with the existing levels we could configure the floor plan so that the kitchen, living, dining and children?s bedrooms opened directly onto garden spaces, to make it easy for the kids to go outside.

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