Rest House
By Borland Architecture
This robust home on the Mornington Peninsula has a strong, bold exterior with a soft calm interior.
Replacing an existing timber framed house in the same location, the design of this house perches the heavily utilised spaces up in the trees and overlooking the uninterrupted views north over the paddocks and south over the private garden, pool, and tennis court.
Thermal comfort and views are the two determining factors of its form. The building is laid out in a linear fashion with the habitable spaces facing north with large, glazed openings carefully shaded. There are no windows to the east and west and any south facing spaces benefit from north light via a narrow plan form. The building mass splits and pivots around its vertical circulation and entry core defining separate functions. This move not only visually breaks the visual bulk, but it also separates the master bedroom from the living spaces upstairs and the garage which is semi submerged from the habitable areas downstairs.
A carefully refined, natural external material palette has been selected to help the building blend into its beautiful natural surroundings which will soften over time. The interiors likewise utilise a refined low maintenance natural palette and use the exterior landscape as a background artwork.
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True quality goes beyond what you can see
We believe that to deliver true quality we must exceed aesthetical and functional delight and deliver a home that performs as well as it looks. After all it’s your family’s health and wellbeing that’s at stake. At Borland Architecture, we don’t take that responsibility lightly.
True quality isn’t just about having something that looks good, that’s a minimal requirement. It is about exceeding expectations on what you see and what you can’t. Our purpose is to design homes that set a new benchmark for families like yours to thrive in and others to aspire too.
All homes should foster rest, social connection, privacy, play and comfort as standard. True quality, appropiate-performance homes furnish the internal environment with just the right amount of fresh, filtered clean air, eliminates contaminates, viruses, moisture, mould spurs etc. These homes are highly insulated, yet seamlessly connected to nature, energy efficient and self sufficient, yet are technologically rich and adaptable for future innovation to grow with your family.
Did you know that the design of your home can affect your family’s quality of sleep? Just think about the impact of that over your lifetime.
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