Boneo House by John Wardle Architects

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Location: Boneo, Victoria, Australia

Site Area: 65 acres

Floor Area: 380 sqm New Build 300 sqm Renovation

Year: 2017

Sustainability: 6 Star (Residential)

Awards

Award for Interior Architecture, AIA Victoria 2018

Award for Residential Architecture (Alterations & Additions), AIA Victoria 2018

Habitus House of the Year 2018

Architects: John Wardle Architects

Project Team: John Wardle, Diego Bekinschtein, Andrew Wong, Danielle Peck, Jeff Arnold, Jenna Ong, Luca Vezzosi, Elisabetta Zanella
Construction: Spence Construction
Lighting: Light Project

Photography: © Sharyn Cairns

Like a divining stick locating water, this house directs itself to the view.

An existing house on the property has been completely reimagined as part of a larger schema for the site. A new timber screen acts like a hedge to define a protected courtyard space – a cultivated garden within the broader rolling hills of the Mornington Peninsula landscape. The new house branches from the old across the slope, unfolding to engage with expansive views stretching over Bass Strait and Port Phillip Bay. A skin of copper on the sides of the house is taut and crisply defining. It is sliced open to frame the views that have been divined from the site.

Entry is through a glass link between old and new where a glimpse of the view is afforded before venturing inside. Timber of local species is used to line the interior, with varying textures across floor, walls and joinery. The interior is like a cabinet itself, a place to wander through, a place for refuge and prospect.

John Wardle Architects