31.8.2023
Pacific House
Pacific House required the building to be quite fundamentally replanned. Although originally built substantially in masonry well before we were retained for our consultancy, it was poorly planned and was dislocated from its views, its gardens and its room logics.
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Our client, a young professional family, required that the house provide for their children, and the functional engineer of family life.
Our client is a long time advocate for our practice. Having completed various work for their commercial businesses, this project represented an opportunity to personalise their story within their own home. We decided that the home must have two sides; the kitchen and garden side including a pool, and a view side. After all, you can’t play in a view. Hence the plan was orientated to allow for the children and the duty of meals, swimming and play. and then for the adults and the contemplation of watching the ocean.
Modifying within the substantial structural constraints, the swimming pool was located in an old driveway excavation. ‘P&O’ inspired, the breakfast nook overlooks the pool length and creates a folly within the neoclassic formality of the plan at large. The house is a combination of contemporary and neo-classicism but retains its youthfulness.