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Vipp Tunnel, Tasmania, Guesthouse / Room11 Architects

Valeria Silva — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Danish design brand Vipp travels to the Southern Hemisphere for the brand's newest guesthouse. Cantilevered over a sloping hill on Tasmania's Bruny Island, the architecturally daring and sustainably designed Vipp Tunnel by Hobart-based studio, Room11, balances beauty and brutalism. Featuring a series of outdoor sculptures by renowned Danish artist Lin Utzon, this ground-up property becomes a unique refuge that marries art, design, and nature.

Rain Curtain House / Room11 Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 18:00:00 +0000

As the name implies, this house is a celebration of a particular climate, of the glorious deluge of rainfall that one of the cleanest places on the planet can be subject.

D’Entrecasteaux House / Room11 Architects

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:00:00 +0000

Bruny Island sits across the narrow D’entrecasteaux Channel which separates it from the Tasmanian mainland. Accessible only by boat, Bruny is a remote and beautiful landscape. The island is a traditional holiday destination for Hobartions and is increasingly becoming an international destination for more discerning cool climate connoisseurs. Our clients, a professional couple, approached us after purchasing the land with a view to building a permanent residence. With family members owing adjacent properties, our clients was intently aware of the need for the architecture to reconcile the need to orient for light and view, but also provide protection from offshore winds and glare from the expansive water plane. Replete with devastating panoramas, the site was nonetheless exposed. Winds buffet the angled terrain and the glorious light is at times too demanding for the eyes.

Little Big House / Room11 Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:00:00 +0000

The Little Big House is located upon the eastern slopes of Mount Wellington, high above Hobart. At 450 meters above sea level, set within a forested landscape, this house encounters snow in the winter months.

Lighthouse / Room11 Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 18:00:00 +0000

It has been previously noted that Hobart is a small city in a large landscape. The beauteous mountainous isle is justly renowned. But the southernmost capital city in Australia is beset by the perennial problem of an expanding edge. The Lighthouse is a carefully considered consolidation project which demonstrates the potential for bespoke building which offer an urban alternative to unchecked suburban haemorrhage.

Royal Wolf / Room11

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:00:00 +0000

GASP! Stage 2 / Room11

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:00:00 +0000

GASP! Stage 1 / Room11

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Allens Rivulet House / Room11

Nico Saieh — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The house has a duality of character and experience defined by the way it responds to context and use. On approach its angular and severe form is a toughened abstract container, bracing itself against the robust Tasmanian landscape and weather conditions. Passing through the “hollowed out” portals, the warm and sheltering underbelly is exposed and acts as a protective envelope. These areas of in-between, outside but surrounded by the building’s form, are a result of a considered approach to outdoor living within typical Tasmanian weather condition, ie “4 seasons in one day”. They allow one to sit in the sunshine but avoid the cold winter wind, or alternatively sit outdoors and avoid the harsh high UV summer sun. The spaces shift from fully enclosed to semi enclosed, with roof and without, culminating in a roof deck for maximum exposure and view.