TWO HOUSES
Ventnor | Millowl / Phillip Island | Bunurong Country
This project comprises two houses sharing a single lot – a small 1970s beach house upgraded to contemporary performance standards, and a new two storey house positioned behind that faces north, for maximum passive solar design benefits.
The new house is designed to be secondary to the original much-loved and relaxed-feeling beach house, and the low-key nature of the original house is embraced in the new.
Openings are positioned to admit winter sun and cooling summer breezes, connect with the street at ground level, and extend views out into the landscape from the first floor, with views of Westernport and the local bush reserve.
The two houses are linked by a semi-enclosed carport entry with a translucent roof – the perfect space to drop surfboards and wetsuits on the way in from the beach; and a wedge-shaped courtyard deck – the perfect place to gather in the sun under the canopy of the trees.
ELEMENTS
- Original 1970s hardwood house framing and timber flooring retained
- New colorbond roof and timber wall cladding to existing house
- New double glazed timber windows with stainless steel bushfire screens to existing house
- New high performance thermal insulation and building wrap
- Internal walls removed to create open plan living areas in existing house
- Restored timber floor, new timber cabinetry and stainless steel plumbing fittings
- New north facing two storey house positioned behind original house
- Passive solar design (natural heating and cooling) to new house
- Colorbond steel roof and wall cladding to new house
- Double glazed aluminium windows with stainless steel bushfire screens to new house
- Timber flooring, timber cabinetry and stainless steel plumbing fittings
- Original carport transformed into semi-enclosed entry with translucent roof and external store
- New courtyard deck between original house and new house
- First floor lookout deck to new house oriented to views of Westernport and local bush reserves
- New electric heating panels and ceiling fans
- New 5.1kW solar power system with provision for future solar battery
- New 15,000L rainwater harvesting system plumbed to house and garden