How This Architect Designed Their Own Cabin to Connect With Nature
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2022
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Overlooking the D'Entrecasteaux Channel on Bruny Island in Tasmania sits a family holiday home designed to respect the natural environment in which it sits. Before even designing their own home, architect Lara Maeseele of Tanner Architects, and Tim Watson of Aldanmark, spent years camping on the site, which helped strengthen their understanding and appreciation for their location.
The initial idea was to design a simple family weekend home that would strengthen your experience of being in the bush. The cabin needed to be modest, not wishing to impose itself on the landscape, instead blending in and getting lost amongst the Tasmanian White Gums and stands of Grass Trees.
The floor plan was dictated by an 18m diameter footprint, a condition placed on the site to help protect the rare and endangered Forty Spotted Pardalote, which calls the site 'home'. You enter via a generous west-facing deck, lovingly called The Sunset Deck, into a foyer/mud room where you can dump muddy boots and outdoor gear. The shack is split into two wings, kids and guest wing on one end, and the living, kitchen and dining plus bedroom and bathroom on the other. Wings can be closed off depending on how many people are occupying the cabin simultaneously to help with heating and cooling.
The materials are kept simple and as local as possible. Being on Bruny Island posed challenges during construction, with transporting materials and concrete trucks over on the ferry. Dark-stained Silver-Top Ash is used externally, and glazing flush with the cladding aids in the cabin disappearing into the forested site.
That same dark-stained timber is used internally, blurring the boundaries between inside and outside. Concrete was used for the kitchen benchtop and splashback, as well as the bathroom vanities and flooring, providing a cost-effective solution. Recycled Tasmania Oak is used for flooring.
Killora Bay has been designed for you to not only appreciate the surrounding landscape but respond to the passing of the day and seasons. The afternoons bring absolute joy to Lara and Tim, with filtered light through the gum trees creating beautiful shadow play on the home, and skylights to the main bedroom and bathrooms allow you to 'sit under the stars' at night.
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Building something wonderful in Portugal in the next few years and these videos are my new favorite breakfast.
Love the floor plan of this property.
I have been waiting for the tour ever since I saw shorts.happy to. Report Not disappointed.. house is beautiful ❤️
Yet another stunning, considered and 'eco' lead property. And indeed a proper 'home'. A real family home. Every aspect considered and reviewed prior to building. As in lessening the transportation impact. Incredible. Nothing 'flash' or over-designed. Excellent. Passes my 'yes please, would love to live there. Thank You for sharing. A perfect example of building for a new future.
This is my dream house!
Beautiful cabin
Wow, this is a gorgeous cabin!
Tony, thanks for sharing this beautiful home tour with us. The Cinematography really captures this very well.
This is utter perfection!
Just beautiful. Hats off to you 👏🏼👏🏼
Gorgeous Space!!! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful, a perfect sanctuary. Love it.
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Very cool!
I could live there permantly.
Trying to work out the ceiling lines in the main living space..
Lovely design. Not a fan of the dark cladding exteriors, would have been nice to use the white gum inspiration and lighten up the wood imo.
I wish there were more detailed shots of that bathroom skylight. When on the site it's probably clear what it is, but when watching the video, we don't quite see how it fits into the walls and roof, can it be opened, can it be covered with some blinds, etc. I'm not familiar with the local climate, but they keep mentioning "capturing solar gains" and there's the active fireplace in the living room - makes me wonder why not opt for polished concrete floor, which would absorb solar heat during the day and radiate it during the night. Surely, it'd add another colour to the palette and rearrange materials ratio, and maybe it's more expensive, but since solar gains are priority, I'd consider it a no-brainer.
Love the projects you post. But I wonder if these might be more effective if you were not inside the spaces that are owned by others. The first video I watched I thought for a second you were the homeowner or someone, with a design background, that broke in while the owners were away...😂
Hi Jim, see this post so you can understand why I'm in the space;
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Sadly though, me appearing in the homes will be something that I continue to do. But I hope the above gives a good enough reason as to why.
I couldn’t open the linked post but without knowing the reason, i think its nice and helpful to see you in the space, it makes the place feel more inhabited and it makes your channel more personnal and engaging. Great work!
It looks like a Hotel and not a home. It's without character. Materials and planning are great, but it looks cold and abandoned.
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Apart for the guy pushing open the big door over and over again I didn't really get much from this.
I'm sorry you didn't get much from the video. To help me ensure you do get some value from these videos, what were you hoping to see or learn? What were your expectations?
@@SimpleDwelling Hi there. I am interested in eco friendly and energy efficient design, I'm even a CPHD and have designed and built a certified passive house - which I would not do again. You mention steel and concrete are not good for the environment, I agree, but the whole industry is geared up around many materials, not least these two; especially concrete - there is very little we can do about that. The use of engineered timber is making inroads to building, especially now CLT's in the apartment area, albeit slowly. Maybe you need add a table at the end of the presentation which tabulates how much reduction you have made in CO2 (especially around production, and captured CO2 in timber and hemp etc), and the mass (weight) reductions you have managed, the percentage of locally produced materials (miles travelled) etc. When you look back at the houses from the 30's, 40's etc. these are mostly built from local materials; bricks, timber, they had suspended timber floors, almost no concrete, had a "safe" located for perishables on the cool south side of the house (no fridges back then - plenty of salami makers). The old 12sq dwellings have a tight square form-factor to reduce heat transfer etc, no air con (the slight floor elevation aided air flow and cooling), - now we are plugged into the grid; energy to keep us cool, energy to keep us warm, and on and on it goes. The looming power issues from the ill-funded Green renewables push will have a big impact to folks and hopefully make them think a bit more about the efficiency of their homes.
I genuinely think the table idea would be really interesting, however a lot of that information (where materials came from) just isn’t readily available to me and the time to source and calculate for each home would be too much. It wouldn’t be simply knowing where the brick came from, but how many bricks? How many cubic metres of concrete? Where did the timber for the frame come from? Plasterboard area? This isn’t something I could do, as I need to source projects to film, shoot, edit, and publish (one man team here).
I am transitioning the channel to feature smaller homes (not necessarily tiny though) that fall under the 230m2 avg Australian house size. And I want to feature projects that use CLT, hemp Crete and other innovative projects, but as you alluded to, they aren’t mainstream and very few use these products, particularly in Australia.
Hopefully in the near future I’ll have some interesting homes for you to get some great value from.
@@SimpleDwelling What a nice response. Your videos are beautiful and very informative. Thanks for all you do!