Marcus O’Reilly Architects has carefully designed a low key, site responsive beach house in Sorrento on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula in Australia. The timber clad structure reinterprets a longstanding beach house tradition in the area. It uses local materials to blend into, respect and compliment it’s sought after, national park adjacent location.

The site, which has been in the owner’s family for more than fifty years, is heavily populated with eucalyptus trees which grow out of the rolling sand dunes of the area. Floating green stained cedar volumes and bleached timbers visually respond to the Eucalyptus canopies. The volumes step up the sand dune allowing it to be virtually undisturbed as it rises to the rear of the site. The front volume is anchored to the ground by canted sandstone walls lending a sense of gravitas to the otherwise light wood framed structure.

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Danny Forster Design Studio philosophy is that a mix of intuitive design decisions and strategies, enabling technology, it is possible for a beautiful sustainable architecture, which can be at a reasonable price to make.

Their vision is to 2700.sq m as Lake House, the first private home in northern Michigan to achieve LEED gold status (a total of 7 states). Omena Lake House is a project that advanced energy modeling software, which is never active systems, and common sense of modern design strategies to create sustainable homes combined, the intention is to connect people to the site a dynamic session. Although the flat roof, and geometric abstraction, the house is part of the history of northern Lake Michigan home a modern, sustainable interpretation of the Lake House.

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