How Landscape and Simplicity Influenced the Design of This Small Off-Grid Home
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- čas přidán 20. 12. 2023
- Sue and Jim approached Ben Callery Architects to design their off-grid weekender in High Camp, focusing on modesty and capturing the panoramic views. The 10x10m square house balances shelter, simplicity and a connection with nature. The design features timber for the exterior and a dark internal palette that feels cosy. The off-grid home has a 6kW solar system, rainwater storage, and a thoughtful design to minimise energy use. This home evokes a special feeling when you're inside, providing both shelter and inspiration in the face of Australia's harsh environment.
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10x10 plan: absolutely perfect!
Must say, the 10m square plan is quite satisfying.
It's such a fantastic match between landscape and house. The moody colour scheme of the house is like a cosy blanket in that wind-swept environment. Just perfect!
I'm more of a light-interior, but Ben achieved something special with this home.
Wonderful project. Nature and house are in harmony
Sometimes having less will let you appreciate what you do have - about an extremely privileged house
A+ content! I enjoyed Ben's narration overlaid onto the beautiful videography. Waking up in this chicly minimalistic off-grid oasis amongst the harsh and unforgiving elements of a bucolic Australian wilderness must be a wondrous experience.
It would be a wonderful experience, Sue and Jim are very blessed.
I like the design, because it shows the respect to the land it is landed in, uses simple and plain material just to meet the minimum need of living, holds the humbleness in front of the nature instead of showing off architect's ambition, ego and "design" skills.
What a beautiful project and surroundings.
It's like a penthouse apartment but on ground level
That's the sort of home I'd love to own at Phillip Island. Could see myself living my days out there.
Same here, definite goals!
Dear architect, how many times you roamed around the same place & in and out that sliding door was eye soothing😅
Bravo job well done love this style home OFF GRID self-sufficient as possible dishwashers are waste of money.
Very nice minimalist concept
Love the setting of this house! ♥
Same here.
Wow, really like the style and clean aesthetics! But, an off-grid one bedroom with meal seating for 8?
@stavrosTX This 'weekend getaway' home is only 1½ hours from Melbourne city. Neighbour visits and daytrippers are possible. Also, any visitors who arrive with their own accommodation eg RV, caravan, camper trailer etc.
It is a weekender for Sue and Jim, so not a full-time family home. I've been here twice now, and Sue tells me of the parties, having family over, so the 8-seater dining table didn't surprise me. Everyone who visits finds a spot somewhere in the living room or outside.
Whats the internal wall structure made of? He mentioned the spotted gum cladding provides bushfire resistance but how else does the house protect itself against fire risk?
I used to live in Yarra Glen and our single glazed windows with a 1m timber deck offset all shattered instantly in the Black Saturday blaze. Does the thicker glazing and wider roof/deck help defend against fire?
Great video and build, certainly a lot more simple of a dwelling only being a weekender, Id love to see what the place would've looked like as a full time home.
The double-glazing and window design (size, sill-height, etc), along with the landscape design helps against the bushfire. BAL29 is high, and requires a lot of small details during construction.
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How do u get electricity? And how about the toilet waste?
They have solar panels and batteries, and a septic system for waste.
How do u get drinking water? Plumbing?
20,000L rain water tank supplies both drinking water as well as water for the toilet, bathroom and kitchen.
I would still add a dishwasher.
@dmiller I would forgo the dishwasher, but most definitely have a washing machine.
If it's a weekender, then I'd opt for a dishwasher over washing machine. Would rather throw dishes into the dishwasher while packing up to go home, and doing laundry back home, personally.
Wow he talks fast, are you in a hurry😂
I like the look of the labdscape and how you fit the house into it.
But then you hit me with that, oh so correct, "colonial presence" blurb at 4:06....You make the European settlement sound something akin to Caine & Abel...
What is it with you Australians (& Kiwis, too, I've noticed) flagellating yourselves on something you are *NOT* responsible for. It sounds like spoiled, well-off posers pandering. Its insincere, imo.
STOP doing that.
@willbass2869 I probably don't need to add that Ben Callery, Architect, speaks to the teaching, values and revisionary influences of his own education. As we all are moulded and informed.
I do give him leave to regret, or even mourn, the widescale losses to the native Australian environment from European settlement. (Just as occurred in USA, Canada, South Africa and more. Remember the removal of native grass cover in Oklahoma facilitated the tragic 'dust bowl' outcomes of the 1920s.) The new chapter in Australian pastoral history is landscape regeneration and planting, as his clients have done on this land in the last five years. Good news indeed!
I also cringed at the 'colonial' remarks about corrugated iron. I'm not an architect or designer. So this was the first time I've heard the material 'reframed' for this decade.
I can only think quietly about the shelter afforded by corrugated iron to timber cutters, miners, drovers, poor settlers, and pioneer families building their first dwellings through the 1800s. And later, the use of corrugated iron for roofing on ornate city terrace houses, large country homesteads, and for construction of farm buildings. There would have been gratitude for this durable building material, that was relatively lightweight and easy to transport, and could be shaped for other necessary uses eg a water trough for stock. Ben is of course entitled to his views and to express them in his work.