Architects:CplusC Architectural Workshop

Area :94 m²

Year :2021

Photographs :Michael Lassman, Murray Fredericks, Renata Dominik

Arborist :Urban Arbor

Planner :Damian O'Toole Town Planning

Quantity Surveyor :Qs Plus

Geotechnical Engineering :Witt Engineering

Electrical :D2E

Landscaping :Landform

Architect And Builder : Clinton Cole

Project Architects : Hayden Co'burn, Carmen Chan

Foreman : Barry Bradley, Nathan Krstevski

Surveyor : Hill and Blume Consulting Surveyors, Elite Surveyor

Plumbing : JH Gordon Plumbing

Certifier : Building Certification Approvals

City : Palm Beach

Country : Australia

Balmy Palmy House celebrates the pleasures of modesty and the simple life. Firmly planted on a steep and rocky slope, this intimate little Palm Beach home suspends you in a bushland canopy. Immersed in the sunshine, trees, breezes, and birdlife, the relaxed holiday feel invites you to recharge.

The site was vacant bushland on the Palm Beach peninsula, 40 kilometers from Sydney CBD. On a steep, rocky slope, a lack of stable subsoil presented a landslide risk. The structure needed to be either excavated into rock or built on concrete pier footings drilled into Hawkesbury sandstone strata, sharing space with a council-protected Port Jackson fig tree and other mature trees. With a tight budget, the design needed to be simple to reduce complexity, construction time, and regular site visits.