Pleyser Perkins’ newest mission is best possible described as an ‘Aussie seaside shack meets Palm Springs motel’.
From the stained-glass home windows and breeze-block partitions, the newly constructed space may just simply be unsuitable as a real mid-century construct, picked up in California and dropped down in Level Leo — about 90 mins out of doors Melbourne.
This was once exactly the temporary in the back of the original dwelling house, which now serves as a circle of relatives vacation house that may cater for visitors and summer time gatherings, prior to changing into the landlord’s extra everlasting place of abode later down the road.
‘The idea that was once impressed via the theory of a Palm Springs motel, playfully integrating Southern Californian cues, however with an Australiana flavour,’ Pleyser Perkins design director Berit Barton says.
‘Having long gone in the course of the revel in of operating with us prior to, the buyer was once able to head bolder and create one thing much more particular and distinctive this time.’
Architectural aptitude from the ’50s and ’60s drove the house’s nostalgic aesthetic and its tongue-in-cheek title, ‘Now not A Motel’. The facade is full of nods to the previous, from the angled roofline to the floor-to-ceiling glass panels, whilst the entrance door opens to an open-plan kitchen and lounge, imagined because the ‘reception’ of the house.
At the back of curved, castellated bushes partitions, an intimate sunken front room was once designed as ‘a spot for dialog and song’. Blonde brickwork encases the personalized cushions upholstered in biscuit-brown cloth.
The floorplan finds an interior interpretation of a vintage motel gangway, with a protracted hallway that runs reverse a courtyard coated in crazy-paving and the swimming pool. A chain of colour-blocked bedrooms and two bogs are nestled alongside the hall, with an extra front room room on the rear of the house.
The architects additionally took passive sun design under consideration, modelling the brick partitions and window placements to maximize the house’s power potency.
The verdict to stay the house single-storey was once similarly planned. ‘While there have been no ocean perspectives to seize, we additionally sought after to set an instance for any long run construction to care for the comfy seaside environment that has been misplaced in such a lot of different over-developed seaside villages at the Peninsula,’ Berit says.
Internally, the house’s personality is knowledgeable via a mixture of complementary fabrics and textures. ‘The home has no longer a unmarried sheet of plasterboard in it!’ Berit mentions. As an alternative, all surfaces are herbal and textured, consisting of bushes, brick, stone, tiles, cork, lining forums, glass and urban, with strategic splashes of coloration during. Hues of eucalytpus inexperienced pay homage to the native bushland panorama, that includes within the kitchen joinery, terrazzo ground and tiled bogs.
Every space additionally has a robust courting to the outside. And similar to in a vintage Aussie seaside space — from a bygone technology that some may name the nice previous days — the yard was once saved wild for the children to play conceal and search all summer time lengthy!
