Image Credit : Photographer: Brock Beazley
Project Overview
Home Built For Generations!
Project Commissioner
Project Creator
Team
Interior Architect & Designer: Studio del Castillo
Architect: Charles Wright Architects
Builder: Nick Hayes Constructions
Project Brief
Serving its family for at least four generations to come, KGB House is founded on bringing people together. Able to be expanded and contracted to accommodate fluxes, extraordinary detail underpins the home in its consideration of the future, ensuring the home as the central pivoting core around which life transpires.
Project Need
Engaged early in the process, the interior was crafted alongside the architectural response as a close client collaboration. Interpreting the nuances of this unique home, and the distinctive endeavours the owners had planned in how the home would function, custom responses and an underlying flexibility to planning was formed. The core challenge of KGH House lay in ensuring the vast scale of the home was not overwhelming with less people in residence.
Living active lives themselves, the intention was for the home to ultimately house multigenerational living. In layering in nods to comfort and familiarity, while also allowing for supported movement, the interior flowing features both an internal lift and a sloping ramped floor. Located along the coast, the structure of the home is both distinct and iconic, firmly weighted in place through concrete.
With this same robust finish left untreated internally in many cases, interventions through the interior needed to align with a similar sense of resilience. Wanting to ensure a comfort throughout the year as well as emphasise the notion of enclosure, a traditional internal ceiling height allows the home to accommodate the stacked levels within council requirements, while burrowing into the terrain below, emphasising an intimacy within.
Design Challenge
As the heart of the home in the truest sense on this occasion, the kitchen combines familiar elements of a residential setting amongst a commercial arrangement. Having spent significant time in industrious kitchens, the owner integrated similar methodologies, defining the space as being led by function.
Wrapped in bronzed brass together with an extensive use of Dekton throughout, the elemental forms that comprise the space sit sculpturally within the home.
While the concrete formwork acts as a tectonic response to the surrounds and climate, the interior responds to these geometries through a balanced and softening lens. Bringing a combination of layered and textured elements together within the spaces, in most cases, electing to use outdoor fabrics for an ingrained durability. In the planned longevity for the home, finishes needed to ensure a strength against the elements, and in some cases was distressed intentionally to encourage the reaction to the environment.
Sustainability
In both its scale and its intimate and intuitive connection to the unique coastal surrounds, KGB House firmly anchors itself amongst the undulating landscape, as an icon of place. Drawing from this unwavering solidity and immersion amongst the dunes, the interior is defined by its layered, textural, and warm approach, softening the otherwise robust brutalist resolve. As a family home above all else, the home and each of its introduced gestures are a celebration of both life and lifestyle – a people-centric place of healthy competition, where entertaining is king and where fulfilment of what matters is supported above all else.
Interior Design - International Residential - Large
Open to all international projects this award celebrates innovative and creative building interiors, with consideration given to space creation and planning, furnishings, finishes, aesthetic presentation and functionality. Consideration also given to space allocation, traffic flow, building services, lighting, fixtures, flooring, colours, furnishings and surface finishes.
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