The house is a beautiful, single family beach house designed to replace an existing dwelling on the site which apparently has been in owner’s possession for a number of years. Design goal was to embrace a two storey covered outdoor living space connecting the house and garden and overlooking the Broadwater. Very nice plan isn’t it?

Also designed to take full advantage of prevailing summer breezes, this house contains a number of passive ESD initiatives. It possesses opening windows on all sides giving good natural ventilation. More solid walls to the south exclude the cooler winter winds. Walls, floors and roofs are generally light colored to reflect heat.

Materials comprise painted, rendered concrete masonry for external walls was generally used. Some areas of timber frame walls are clad in fiber cement sheet with aluminum cover battens. The roof is steel framed and lined. Window frames and shutters are anodized aluminum. Flooring is generally white terrazzo with some areas of natural timber boarding. An over all very pleasant residence designed for a modernist family that can afford better thing in life. [via contemporist]