Nannup House
Wardandi and Bibbulum
Date
2013
Collaborators
Photos: Peter Bennetts
Selected Awards
2014 The Marshall Clifton Award for Residential Architecture- Houses AIA WA Chapter.
2014 Honourable Mention The Architectural Review (AR) House Award England.
2016 Architizer A+ Awards Private House L3000-5000 sq ft), Special Mention.
2016 The American Architecture Prize- Honourable Mention in Residential
2014 Australian Steel Industry Design Excellence Award WA Chapter, Buildings under $5.0 million category.
The Nannup Holiday house forms part of a wandering path through the landscape from Perth to Nannup. This path dialogues with the landscape of intense forrest, meandering river and rolling hills, each experience is carefully choreographed to enrich the occupancy of the house. A Jeykll and Hyde experience of the landscape is carefully controlled through oscillating vertical (forest) and horizontal (horizon) openings and the contrast of grounded and floating experiences. While the exterior dialogues with the numerous fallen trees, the interior is revealed through a sequence of ‘growth rings’ coded and extruded in relation to the building program.