Location	Jamberoo, NSW
Type	Addition to an existing residential dwelling
Size	77m2
Status	DA Approved

Description

Small but carefully formed, this modest addition to an existing 4-bedroom dwelling on the South Coast (NSW) provides secondary sleeping accommodation for short-term guests.

A new, simple building form is connected to the existing home via a glazed bridging element. Bedrooms within, are staggered and set diagonally to capture the best views of the surrounding landscape, framed through floor to ceiling glazing. Voids are then carved out of the new mass, creating two enclosed courtyards that sit directly adjacent to the new accommodation, offering more intimate and immediate external spaces that deliberately contrast and complement the distant primary vistas.

Elevations subsequently alternate between open and closed, solid and void. Oversized apertures that frame the countryside, give way to extended sections of solid wall, providing privacy as they screen spaces and gardens ‘within’. This binary approach allows large, surface mounted, ‘barn-style’ doors to be either stacked clear or drawn across, to close off the building when not in use, or provide protection from prevailing winds.

A buildable, lightweight construction responds to the remote location, whilst meeting bushfire requirements. Utilitarian materials reference both the rural context and the original home. Corrugated steel cladding, synonymous with the Australian bush, reinforces key datums as it runs from inside and out, blurring definitions between the two. Internally considered detailing seeks to elevate ‘non-luxury’ materials and ‘surface mounted’ services, to create spaces that are refined, comfortable and relate to place.