Sunrise Beach House, By Wilson Architects.

The Sunrise Beach House located on Sunshine Coast Queensland. The house is a cross between the "Pavilion Beach-house and an Urban courtyard" style while it also incorporate a mixture of Architecture and Landscape Architecture to produce a development that exploits the play between internal and external, while the materials help reflect two separate natures one of rawness externally and the other of warmth internally. Here is a quick Description of the design intent, to allow you to better understand,

"Rather than prestige frontage and pergola clad rear, this house blurs its ‘entry’ and ‘exit’ into a series of walls, apertures and portals. Its edges and openings are every bit as important as the walls, roof and floor. Modern without overt or banal references, the design dances with shadow and light. Wilson displays a sculptor’s eye for material possibilities that brings into alignment elemental building materials of stone, water, timber and glass. It creates a compelling rhythm of opposites: solidity and transparency, light and dark, cool and warm, hard and soft."


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.
















View from the court yard into the main lounge. Showing the large opening that increases the effect of the primary objective to explore a the interplay between internal and external beach landscape. all images found on, www.idea-awards.com.au/2008-round-4/sunrise-beach-house/

Internal view of the study and the use of the timber to give the room/house warmth and colour.

Lounge with the contrast in colour of the timber flooring compaired to the study, and the view that is framed and uninterrupted.

Informaion recieved from;

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.

Australian Institue of Landscape Architects, 2008, Sunrise Beach House http://www.aila.org.au/projects/qld/wilson-sunrise/default.htm, (assessed 2nd March 2010)

Australian design review, 2007 Sunrise Beach House, http://www.idea-awards.com.au/round-4/sunrise-beach-house/ (Assessed 2nd March 2010)