We hope you enjoyed our second episode from The Sustainability Series - St Andrew's Beach House by Austin Maynard Architects. You may recognise Andrew from his great RU-vid channel, ArchiMarathon! For more of the latest and greatest in architecture, interior design and house tours, make sure to subscribe to our tri-annual hardcopy print publication - thelocalproject.com.au/subscribe
This is a beautiful structure sitting in an equally beautiful setting! The spaces look so cleverly arranged, the only slight disappointment is the lack of privacy in the bedrooms from the curtain walls but then the house is so beautiful I guess anybody living here wouldn't mind constantly having to whisper. ❤
More ‘traditional’ Australian beach houses were shacks, with thin walls or curtain dividers and often with dormitory style sleeping areas. (Family sized tents and permanently sited holiday caravans with canvas annexes have also been super typical holiday accommodations in Australian beach towns.) I could very easily live full time in this house!
@@spiralpython1989 yeah, our shacks just didn't have the same pricetags. So for the enormeous amount of money one might have certain expectancies. A dustbowl it is, although very pretty indeed. Is expensive durable building still ecofriendly?
I love the work of Austin Maynard Architects. Incredible, thoughtful design solutions. Looks like I have to move to Australia so they can design something for me … 😊
I love it. An occupant would never stop marveling at the structure and the beauty of the wood. The surroundings are also, of course, amazing. It's also good to know that some people who could afford an architect-designed cabin of this quality, would go for something that modest in size.
Love Andrew Maynard! love watching his youtube channel on design as well! This was a really well designed and excellently presented home! no use of pretentious language with the focus on the outcome - sustainability, materials and the philosophy behind the build. Thanks for featuring this one local project team! really enjoyed it
Wow thanks for this! Much deserved feature Andrew! If you're wondering why he is so good at talking about his project its because he has the channel Archiemarathon about architecture - highly recommend it!
Thumbs up to mark watched :0) Their collection is amazing and I'm still watching archival pieces after a year. These short but inciteful works are best played on the lunch hour. Anyone else?!
Wonderful home and design. Love the materials used and minimalism of the space. For me, I would've considered reversing the layout by having the bedrooms downstairs and the living room, (where one generally spends most of one's time), upstairs to take advantage of the views.
HELL YES! More Sustainable architectural designs! OHMYGOD that cabin is absolutely beaut! I FREAKN LOVE THIS SUSTAINABLE SERIES!!! The word "Sustainable" is an extremely valuable keyword for seo and i'm glad videos like this is withholding such value. (Now I just want to see an "affordable" and "sustainable" architectural build.)
As someone who values privacy, those curtains would be my biggest nightmare ... Even the brick wall between rooms in our house let's in way too much noise from the other rooms.
My favorite thing about this is how dirty the windows are. I live in a house near the beach and I've given up on cleaning the windows. Would need to pay someone to come every other week to keep them clean.
VERY INTERESTING what he is saying ath the beginning: Let in the Sun in the winter and block it in the summer. HOW DO YOU DO THAT? I am really interested in that fundamental detail.
I imagine he’s referring to the project’s orientation. They’re south of the equator so the majority of the glazing is oriented north to let sunlight/solar radiation in year round. In winter the sun is lower in the sky so it’s able to heat the space directly through the glazing. Likewise, in summer the sun is higher in the sky so the little horizontal awnings above the glazing block the sun’s radiation, limiting heat gain in the space.
Lovely house but the greenwashing is a bit over the top. Yes, timber sequests carbon when its a living tree, but that process stops when its cut into lumber.
It’s beautiful but sustainable? Nah. Huge carbon footprint to put this house out in the middle of nowhere. Prepping the site resulted in a huge carbon footprint. Moving all the materials out there-huge carbon footprint. Driving to a from that home-huge carbon footprint. Sustainable is high density. This is just a giant virtue signal for some rich person that tells everyone they are green…and rich.
Its a pity that the outside isn't actual round. Its not that hard to make true curved external walls Another small whinge is that the use of galvanized stdel plate and bolts. Could of used stainless steel or powder coating
At a time when so many people can't buy one house I have no time for people that have two - even sustainable. There was nothing there before? We are not the only species.
Hmmm sustainable?? Let’s assume that building cost 3 million (guess) that’s 5 million the client had to earn before paying taxes approximately Let’s assume the client has a business that makes widgets and makes 10 % profit after all expenses. That’s 50 million $ worth of widgets that had to be manufactured to pay for this building. Sure I’m a hypocrite as we all do this but to label a building like this sustainable?? Might be a stretch. Ps great looking building and congratulations to the contractor!
Beautiful and well designed but agonisingly pretentious. Still so much metal, concrete, and rare earth minerals. This is wealthy green fashioning. For starters you can look at Japanese building techniques where not a single metal nail or screw is used for the framing, then look at adobe for the concrete substitute, then recycled windows, recycled roofing and so on. A multi million dollar home for someone to live full time? Or just for Holliday's? So two homes? And how do they make their money? Carbon based nonsense
I'm sure that was a very beautiful setting before they built the house. Any man made structure compromises the beauty of any naturally beautiful place. Beaches are for beauty, not houses. We are running out of beautiful places, those that remain should be preserved, not turned into vacation homes for rich people. There is no such things as a sustainable beach house.
I like the structural circular ring, they could have extend this idea to get rid off every second post in the middle good film to an extent the amount of "sustainability" fake narratives packed here was overwhelming and unnecessary
You know what isn't sustainable? People owning multiple houses. It doesn't matter how green it is. Overconsumption is overconsumption. If these people really wanted to help the planet, they'd help poor people rebuild their pre-existing houses to be more efficient. This shit is just a beautiful distraction
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