Albany Beach House
Goode Beach, Western Australia
A001605
Bunkered into the hillside of its site on Western Australia’s rugged south coast, Albany is an ocean pavilion which unifies modernist and brutalist architectural languages to define a novel response in sync with its context.
The residence has been designed for agility, able to host guests and family with a separate living zone constructed from concrete blockwork on the ground floor and two floors above clad in charred timber from which panoramic views across the Indian Ocean are framed between two planes connected by glazing.
The drama of the homes aspect is tempered by a gentle orchestration of light which falls as a dappled veil inside as is pierces through the surrounding foliage. Poised as a vessel by which you experience place, the clean lines alongside a curation of materials selected for their propensity to wear in, not out, shapes a new kind of modernism entirely informed by the surrounding natural environment.
Albany, Western Australia
Residential, Building
Complete
Anna Jeffery