Situated on a sloping site, the small footprint home touches the earth lightly and is elevated off the ground on structural posts. With a size of 106 sqm the residence is minimal in size but grand in design intent. A garden roof crowns the house and allows it to merge back into the coastline. The interior is composed with two bedrooms, a bathroom, open plan kitchen, dining and living and storeroom.
Avalon House
Australian studio ArchiBlox designed a single-family house near Sydney, featuring a garden roof that crowns the house and allows it to merge back into the coastline.
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- 28 December 2016
- Sydney
Beyond ArchiBlox’s speedy build time, prefab suited the clients desire to tread lightly on the land with the Avalon House project. After a two-month design process and five months to secure proper permits, the house was installed on-site in just six weeks, meeting the clients’ deadline.
The dwelling is also outfitted with a number of green features, including a living roof that minimizes rainwater run off which also acts as a thermal mass and an east-west orientation that allows cross-ventilation. With modular building the impact on the surrounding environment is heavily reduced by fabricating off-site, ArchiBlox also had careful control over material usage.
Avalon House, Sydney
Program: single-family house
Architects: ArchiBlox
Area: 106 sqm
Completion: 2016