Killcare House

• Name Killcare House
• Client Private Client
• Location Killcare, NSW
• Year 2000

A beach house that deliberately feels like the beach – open, unforced, a true shift from the city – for shared use by two families. The scheme develops as a tall timber-framed castle, piled up along a straight stair. Its robust forms are cantilevered and interlocking, sheltered under a single plane of roof whose slope matches the tree canopy. The plan inflects to retain huge sandstone boulders, which stabilise and define the steep site. The building’s junction with the ground is carefully controlled to respect the fragile surface of the 45 degree slope and remnant lush bushland. An earlier garage and studio on the street frontage were reconstructed to conform with the architecture of the main house.