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Springs Beach House on the Discovery Coast, Queensland
Queensland Real Estate Development, Australia – design by Bark Design Architects
9 Mar 2019
Springs Beach House
Design: Bark Design Architects
Location: The Discovery Coast, Queensland, Australia
Springs Beach House is located on a spectacular coastal site calling for a complementary beach house to integrate with the landscape and take advantage of ocean, light and views: striking the perfect balance between prospect and refuge.

Located on Central Queensland’s ‘Discovery Coast’, Springs Beach House harnesses the incredible views of the Coral Sea and across the cresting waves towards the headland at Seventeen Seventy, the site where Captain James Cook first landed in Queensland in 1770. The site is a bushy escarpment, falling dramatically towards the beach and view to the north.
The single-storey beach house nestles carefully into the site, paying reverence to the stunning natural landscape, rather than dominating. A sunken grassed courtyard, screened by low walls sits to the left of the entry, creating a private outdoor living space in the shade and refuge of the coastal bushland. Like an ancient ruin, textural cast concrete lends the courtyard a timeless quality and anchors the house to the landscape, while a central fire pit will no-doubt become the gathering place of choice for long evenings of c...