Coolum Bays Beach House in Queensland by Aboda Design Group

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To create a refined, clean lined, modern but informal home with dramatic street presence that took optimum advantage of the site's potential for outstanding views. To create a home for a family as a group of increasingly-independent adults, which catered for their differing lifestyle patterns and created a base for them to come together.
Images of modernist style building examples were shown, which included strongly articulated external form and bold use of materials for both the home and surrounding landscape. The home was to harness the best of laidback and unpretentious living in Coolum but at the same time being testament to the life's efforts of the clients and the exceptional skills of their building team.
The difficult site constraints formed the basis for the drama of the design, considerations included – topographical constraints (very steep site), height limit limitations including side setback challenges (relatively narrow site for inclusion of side driveway and below-house parking, at ninety degrees to the driveway, all within 17M overall width) + steep cross fall, driveway location and gradient (1 in 4 maximum allowable , solar orientation, sub terrainean rock as close as 300 mm below surface, maximum projection/ cantilever to secure vistas.
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