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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.

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.

ArchiBlox, Avalon House, Sydney, 2016

ArchiBlox, Avalon House, Sydney, 2016

ArchiBlox, Avalon House, Sydney, 2016

ArchiBlox, Avalon House, Sydney, 2016

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.