Killora Bay House is a lovely holiday home located in Bruny Island, Australia, designed in 2021 by Tanner Architects.

Description
Overlooking the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Killora Bay is a seasonal holiday home designed for a young family and friends. The house sitting and form are heavily conditioned by its delicate environmental setting.
Populated by a dense canopy of Tasmanian White Gums and stands of Grass Trees, the site is a sanctuary for the Forty Spotted Pardalote. This necessitated a planning condition limiting the building envelope to a predetermined site and 18m diameter ?footprint? on the southern corner of the site ? which shares a boundary to the road behind.
These conditions consolidate the planning response, resulting in a building ?in-the-round?. The proximity of the established stands of white gum, aspect, and slope establish a series of adjacencies, which serve to highlight certain interior relationships, and modes of seasonal occupation within the broader site. The approach to the house is from down-slope, through dense forest and undergrowth. The house emerges through fragmentary glimpses, as a monumental and elemental built form. The exterior is durably and directly detailed, clad in bushfire-resistant and locally sourced Silver-Top Ash, stained dark, and glazing is set flush to the fac?ade ? reflecting the surrounding white gum forest. The exterior palette also serves to ?silhouette? the house within its forested site.
The hou...