Suffolk Park
A gorgeous, custom-built, contemporary four-bedroom home in a much-loved beach location.
Architect: Archimages Architecture | Engineering: Ardill Payne & Partners
The ultimate beach house? With possibly the best beach aspect in the street, the other blocks having a bush barrier between themselves and the view, the clients wanted a residence that would make the most of the exclusive position. This J S Henderson project was the construction of an exclusive contemporary four bedroom beachfront residence in Suffolk Park, NSW.
The original structure was an old, much loved beach house that had undergone many alterations and additions over the years. This was demolished in January 2014 and earthworks commenced to prepare for the new home.
Attention was given to the fantastic views out to sea that the new house would provide. The Archimages design allowed for the views to be appreciated from either end of the house as a clear line of sight was preserved from front to back.
The home was constructed using a steel portal structural frame with timber-framed infill. Considerable time was taken to reduce the between-floors sandwich by inserting the joists in the same plane as the bearers. This allowed the glazing to be truly floor to ceiling with most lintels being absorbed into the ceiling above, providing an unbroken ceiling line from interior to exterior. Sounds easy when you say it quickly, but this created a delicate balance of heights that left no room for error in the construction process. Floor to ceiling internal sliding dividers on the lower floor provided a similar clean ceiling line when opened.
The exterior cladding was a mixture of render and Colorbond. This particular Colorbond has a special metallic finish that is seldom seen in residential applications due to the expense and availability, but provides a vibrancy and sheen to the colour scheme.
The lower floor was tiled throughout to accommodate the natural ingress of sand from the beach on peoples feet (this home embraces a barefoot beach-going lifestyle). Upstairs, the flooring chosen was a pale oak wide board floating floor. This neutral toned flooring allows the deep ocean blue powder-coated glazing frames to give definition to the spaces enclosed. The addition of timber highlights in the form of the framed entrance window, the staircase, rear deck and cabinet door fronts provided further points of interest.
Extensive garden design and planting provided the final touches to a spectacular home.
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