Project Details

Status: Completed
Architect: Contech
Builder: NRG Building
Location: Kangaroo Island

Project Description

Perched atop remote pastoral hills overlooking the rugged mid-north coast of Kangaroo Island, the Hawks Nest Residence houses family and friends on holiday retreats, allowing them an intimate experience of the island’s raw natural beauty.

Designed as two independent residences wrapping around a central sheltered courtyard, these flexible spaces can come together, enveloping the courtyard to act as one home.

The minimalist architectural form provides refuge from the elements, while large expanses of glazing frame portraits of the landscape; panoramic views of swelling hills and valleys, thickets of gum and rugged coastline. This treatment blurs the line between indoor and outdoor space, bathing guests in soft, almost ethereal light as they move through the rooms.

Blackbutt baton timber screens and panelling add natural warmth and provide privacy, while concrete floors and mass walls imbue a brutalist feel: each element harnessing the resilient, raw physicality of the home’s surrounds.

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