2024 Interior Awards, Residential Award winner
The living space opens to the outdoors through both pivoting and sliding apertures.
Lighting details are a further exercise in reductionism.
The kitchen and living areas use clever materialism to exude warmth and depth.
A first-floor bedroom is screened from the street.
Bedroom spaces are warm and calming.
Congratulations to this year’s Residential Award winner — Coromandel House by Evelyn McNamara Architecture
The jury’s comment:
“An exercise in reductionism and crafted details, this beautiful home uses clever materialism to exude warmth and depth with a delightful connection to the natural environment. Displaying great restraint in interior planning, material selection and detailing, the underlying concrete framework is complimented by a singularity of timber surfaces and cabinetry, creating a sense of enclosure and comfort. External spaces are adeptly drawn into the interior by way of sliding and pivoting apertures, ensuring the house is both immersed in and at one with the landscape.”
PROJECT DETAILS:
Location: Coromandel
Client: Andrew and Amy Price
Building area (m2): 299m2
Project brief: We wanted to position the home on the site in a way that created a private sanctuary out the back. Privacy was very important from the street and at ground level all around the home. The clients wanted to push the boundaries in terms of materiality and building performance. We wanted to achieve a concrete home with no wall linings, which was a challenge to ensure we still met all thermal performance criteria. The inspiration for the mood and aesthetic of the home was the minimalism of Tadao Ando’s Japanese architecture. Our clients wanted a three-bedroom home with two living areas and a tranquil deck and pool area.
Credits:
- Project principal – Evelyn McNamara
- Interior designer and owner – Amy Price
- Builder and owner – Andrew Price
“We chose to use in-situ concrete for all the lower level exterior walls of the home, with a flat panel formwork. The top level is a timber frame, clad in Weathertex, which then has a cedar rainscreen slat layout over the top. This was to enable the windows to slide open to the street and the west while still maintaining privacy. The interior has a very minimalist design aesthetic, which is given richness by the use of the same timber on walls, floors and ceilings. The raw concrete finish on the interior creates a very rich, moody interior which is similar to the style of Japanese architecture, where calmness is achieved through minimalism, yet warmth is introduced through materials.” - Evelyn McNamara
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