Exemplar analysis on the Sunrise Beach House

Sunrise beach house:

The Sunrise Beach House designed by the Wilson Architects has been developed to integrate the Pavilion Beach-house and an urban courtyard style. This hybrid explores the interplay between internal and external beach landscapes. With this hybrid design it allows for the security and privacy of the urban court yard with the openness of the internal beach house.

Environmental filter;

• Dynamically uses walls, windows and openings to achieve a layer of privacy as there is no direct exit, this allows the house to have its own filter from external influences.
• Uses glass and timber fins on the upper level to draw in light, wind, and views but can also be used to block out the environment but keen the view.
• The u shape design on the outside acts as collector of prevailing breezes, light but also protects from the hot afternoon sun, and the undesirable weather direction.
• Large sliding glass doors, pivotal glass doors, glass windows allow for maximum cross ventilation and air flow. (due to the large amount of glass they have gone with a low E glazing
• House is able to capture the prevailing breezes but also able to close of the external environment for undesirable weather.
• use maximum natural lighting
• Orientated toward the east west axis allows major living areas to receive maximum light and ocean views and breezes but also protects from the afternoon sun.

Container human movement;

• Public and private with the stepping down in the design giving a subconscious though of what room or were in the house you are gives a new experience to the design.
• continuous suspension between movements and stillness
• Open free flowing form but still closed to the outside allowing for privacy and comfort.
• Entry has a very human scale then as you go into a more enclosed courtyard that acts as a barrier from external the release of space as you go through the door till eventually space is released and reveals the openness of the house. .
• Flow is designed to frame and reframe views within and without
• Space between public and private becomes blurred.
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Delightful experience;

• contrast in the play of materials elegant V's Raw, refined V's natural
• dances with shadow and light
• beach house open plan with excellent cross ventilation and views but the protection of a urban courtyard plan.
• Materials, raw concrete, glass, zinc offset with the warmth of timber and woven cane (create an environment of contrasting elegance and rawness.
• Sequence of ocean vignettes are playfully screened and framed against the house and landscape
• cold feel, play with concrete and steel to the warmth of timber inside compared to out
• Materials = stone, water, timber and glass.,
• feeling of solidity with transparency, light and dark, cool, warm, hard and soft.
• "a series of concrete planes and glass ‘screens.’ The effect is one of a solidity bathed in effulgent light."
Viridian Sunrise, 2008, Beach House



Viridian Sunrise, 2008, Beach House, Sunshine Coast, http://www.viridianglass.com/Case_Studies/Vision/vision12-2/default.aspx?Case_Id=vision-12 (accessed 2nd March 2010.