2011 Gallery

Looking out across Tasmania's Bruny Island and the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, the Trial Bay House is a complete reimagining of a dwelling that was designed forty years ago. An extensive renovation has created a family home with a serene, restrained quality. This calm atmosphere derives from the landscape setting, a thoughtful pattern of occupation and carefully detailed and finely crafted architecture that responds to the site and the people who live here. The alterations to the original house have opened it up to the landscape through capacious new doors and windows. Inside, the house now has an informal plan and a spatial and material richness. The additions comprise a living room, verandah, courtyard and garage. Together with the barn-like form of the original house, the latter three read as a suite, woven together over time. The first is a striking new room that projects out towards the channel. This robust pavilion frames the view through deep precast concrete reveals, heightening the experience of the magnificent site. For further coverage see Houses 76. From the Houses Awards jury.