PROJECT DESCRIPTION
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Name: Tugun Residence
Date of construction completion: January 2004
Total project cost: $1.3M
Gross floor area (m2): 340
Project Address: Tugun, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Owner / client name: Private Residence
Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones
Architecture Firm: bureau^proberts
SUMMARY
The Tugun Residence provides a living space on the beach edge that allows the beach environment to inhabit the house. Its ground floor plan is elevated providing protection and privacy from the street and neighbouring property.
Its simple lower plan allows the edges to be fully opened when the weather permits to create an “under the house” feel. Robust materials are used in response to its location and these materials are expressed in an honest fashion.
This approach allows the house to capture north east to south east breezes and bring them through the living spaces to the rear of the house. The northern side of the house is dedicated to a circulation spine due to the imminent neighbouring development. Openings at the upper level are sparing and protected for privacy. At the lower level these openings are expansive and protected by the external fence. This approach extends the perceived living areas at the lower level. The bedrooms are facetted to the south east on the upper level where a response over the existing conditions allow privacy and glimpsed views of the ocean.
A simple steel structural system provided large open spaces and allowed the use of concrete and glass to create the external fabric of the building and for the concrete to become the robust edge of the major living spaces.
Where exposed to the south east, the concrete is playfully sculpted to create an ambiguous form in the street that responds to its casual beach context. The concrete panels are facetted and varied to achieve the expression. It required a close collaboration of architect, engineer and specialist sub contractor to ensure its shape and balance for lifting along with its resolution at junctions with openings all whilst maintaining the casual and varied form. The glass front is a low maintenance and simple form in deference to the concrete edge.
Drawing Style
In producing the drawings for this project, a key aim was to replicate the exemplar architects style through our own pictorials. Since this project was completed by a firm and not a single architect, i analysed the firms work as a whole, looking into other projects as well as the tugun residence, observing the aethetic qualities of the buildings interior and exteriors, as well as the design philosophy of the buildings flow through floor plans, in doing so i found
The buildings utilised materials that integrated seamlessly into the surrounding environment, for instance in the case of the tugun residence, the glass, matt grey concrete and light timber finishes provide a stunning yet understated aesthetic finish to the building, allowing it to blend into its context of sand, waves and pandanus palms.
a minimalistic, soft pastely colour palette was utilised
very modern design influences
in satisfying these criteria, a variety of techniques and attempts were played with before settling on the final perspectives for submittal
Drawing Style
In producing the drawings for this project, a key aim was to replicate the exemplar architects style through our own pictorials. Since this project was completed by a firm and not a single architect, i analysed the firms work as a whole, looking into other projects as well as the tugun residence, observing the aethetic qualities of the buildings interior and exteriors, as well as the design philosophy of the buildings flow through floor plans, in doing so i found
The buildings utilised materials that integrated seamlessly into the surrounding environment, for instance in the case of the tugun residence, the glass, matt grey concrete and light timber finishes provide a stunning yet understated aesthetic finish to the building, allowing it to blend into its context of sand, waves and pandanus palms.
a minimalistic, soft pastely colour palette was utilised
very modern design influences
in satisfying these criteria, a variety of techniques and attempts were played with before settling on the final perspectives for submittal
this rendering was a bit too colourful for the style in mind, the priors more subdued colour palette more fitting.
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