Burleigh Headland Residence

The site is positioned high on Burleigh Headland, adjacent to the National Park where the strong environmental context of the siting has generated a design response that allows the occupants to connect with its natural setting with internal views into the tree canopies & North across the Ocean to the Gold Coast skyline. The building form has been broken down into two pavilion like forms to allow outdoor spaces on the upper level living zones & again celebrate the outdoor sub-tropical climate of the site & allow light & cooling sea breezes to penetrate. The detailing of the building is in its local vernacular of lightweight, beach house timber dwellings with fine timber & batten qualities evident in original 1940’s houses of the area & reinterprets it into a contemporary beach house.