Main Points from research:
-Use of materials that are sympathetic and responsive to the environment, as highlighted by the timber shell encasing nearly the entire building.
-Incorporating the use of a large number of windows into the design to bring the outside in, giving the sense of the inhabitant being more at one with the surrounding environment.
-House designed to capture and channel light to the appropriate sections of the house at the correct times of day.
-Floor plan and layout dictated to by environmental conditions, such as breezes, views, sun mapping and other climatically related issues.
Supporting Text:
“He is also a humanist – seeking opportunities to exploit climate and site conditions to enhance emotional experience”
Australian Architecture Now
Ginko Press 2000
“The house also floats above the site. This gravity-defying notion Breuer referred to as “atavistic instinct”. Thereby the landscape remains relatively undisturbed and paving, garden walls and driveways are “free flowing forms that are foils to emphasise the otherwise linear emphasis of the house” (Masello, p13). Like Breuer, Wardle incorporates these earth-defying elements with earth bound or anchoring elements, so that the house cantilevers over the site. Being elevated the house needed to be light - a quality inherent in timber building.”
http://www.timber.org.au/NTEP/Resources/17s.pdf
b) A house as a container of human activities
Main Points from Research:
-Draws on human experience and historic referencing to create more than just a series of rooms but an experience throughout the building.
-The house deliberately provides a distinctly holiday feel to separate the inhabitant from their normal day-to-day lives once they arrive.
-Layout of Floor Plan works on the notion of allocation of space to channel human movements and living patterns.
Supporting Text:
“A retreat in the sea-side environs of Balnarring, the house operates as a weekender. Like a suitcase, it is 'unpacked' on arrival and then 'repacked' on departure. The planning reflects the clients' pattern of living, the bedroom provides the first glimpses of the rising sun, the kitchen and dining areas face the northern garden aspect and the living room heralds the evening by addressing the setting sun.”
“Summons memories of old suburban Australia, when neighbours would visit each other via unlocked back doors to their kitchens”
“A suitcase to be unpacked for holidays”
“Inside is a narrative journey”
Australian Architecture Now
Ginko Press 2000
“Wardle is faithful to the Breuer idiom. In planning terms, the house is both “long”, where living areas are situated at one end, services in the middle and bedrooms at the far end, and “binuclear”, where sleeping and living areas are more emphatically separated.”
http://www.timber.org.au/NTEP/Resources/17s.pdf
c) A house a delightful experience
Main Points from Research:
-The high level of detail and use of quality materials heightens the experience of the inhabitant.
-The architect creates a “narrative” which the visitor experiences, leading up to and within the residence.
-Structural design blurs the line between inside and outside.
Supporting Text:
“There are so many opportunities to admire fine cabinetry, employing a palette of interesting veneers and acidic paint, sophisticated door hardware and flamboyant details. With these elegant elements Wardle has transformed supposedly a humble beach shack into something akin of a jewel box.”
“Interior spaces are spanned with a structural efficiency that allows play between in and outside.”
Australian Architecture Now
Ginko Press 2000
“Visitors are made to approach the house from the road, a distance that allows, indeed “forces them to consider the form they are about to enter”
http://www.timber.org.au/NTEP/Resources/17s.pdf
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