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Photographs:John Gollings
Text description provided by the architects. Nestled in amongst the tee trees and coastal scrub on the Silverleaves foreshore is a pair of glistening red fins – a bold response to the client’s brief for a “grand gesture on limited means”.
Commissioned by the architect’s parents – a horticulturalist and owner of a timber mill respectively – their desire was for a “house by the beach, rather than a beach house” with sitting spaces for all seasons, morning or afternoon “to chase the sun, or escape it.”
Reminiscent of a Serra sculpture, the two striking red glazed-brick blade walls cut through the site, organising program into linear bands including a services strip, private program and public program.
