The Sunrise Beach House set nestled amongst the sand dunes at Sunrise beach on the Sunshine Coast. This beach house avoids the preoccupation with hugging the coastal boundary to maximise sea views; instead a sequence of ocean vignettes are screened and framed against the house and landscape. A number of themes were explored with this project:
- the development of the interior plan as an extension of the broader (borrowed) landscape
- a positive engagement with the ground plane rather than a disconnected elevated living experience
- the modulation of light and views to create constantly shifting visual experiences, and
- the creation of variable strategies for living inside and out under variable exposed conditions.
In this project the landscape, particularly the magnificently placed pandanus trees, creates the place, and the built works, indisputably beautiful as they are, are merely well-crafted places to respectfully dwell within the landscape. Large sliding doors open the structure out onto the internal courtyard/lawn/pool area allowing for beautiful sea breezes and bright natural lighting.
The open planned ground floor living spaces make way for smaller intimate spaces above. It is in these private spaces that Wilsons have really played with modulating and tricking the light through a number of screens, glass and timber hatching systems.
The true delight of this house is really in the way it has harnessed its surrounding environment. With its extensive openings and shifting views, the beach house is not preoccupied with just the ocean. It is also about a connection to the sand and beach vegetation. It is about the weather. It is about these textures and materials that, although sophisticatedly considered and designed, are fundamentally rooted in the senses.
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