Dorman House by Austin Maynard Architects
Completely redesigned by Austin Maynard Architects, this beautiful house is located in Lorne, Australia.
Description by Austin Maynard Architects
There are too many beautiful old shacks being demolished, and Austin Maynard Architects won?t be part of it.
In brief
A couple of years ago Kate and Grant showed us around their beautiful little shack, in bushland near the ocean, which they loved and valued greatly. They asked ?how could we add a clear and elevated view of the ocean without demolishing, damaging or dominating our beloved shack"?
It?s a simple brief, but inherently problematic. Solutions can easily become expensive and complicated. After stumbling through the complexities many people choose to demolish their shack and start again. It is an economic decision that many shack owners make, at the expensive of local and family heritage. Our challenge was to avoid doing what some neighbours, and many other people along the coast, have done. We refused to have yet another Great Ocean Road shack sacrificed and replaced with a McMansion. We refused to be part of the slow erosion of the Great Ocean Road?s collective cultural memory. Kate and Grant couldn?t agree more. The What
Dorman House is a finely crafted timber box, independently constructed to hover over an existing beach shack in Lorne, Victoria. In contrast to the neighbours, it has been designed to weather, to go grey, to age, and sink back into the landscape, back into the bush.
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