Rock Pool
Deliberately modest from the front and aligned with the cliff-face water’s edge to the rear, Rock Pool sees the reimagining of a family home that focusses on togetherness and a deeply rooted connection to place. As an expression of how the owners want to live, the multi-level home balances a concealing of privacy with an open and flowing interior that extends effortlessly out into the surrounding dedicated gardens and terrace spaces.
Rock Pool
- Architecture Dods & Zuccon
- Builder Beebo Construcitions
- Landscaping Myles Baldwin Design
- Photography Prue Ruscoe
- Styling Olga Lewis
Replacing an existing home that sat previously on the site, the new form draws inspiration from the encompassing context and comes together as a grounded masonry form. Allowing for independent living on the lower most level, the aim was to create a destination hotel sensibility. With feature elements such as crazy-paving flooring caried from inside out, the select muted and softly toned colourings form a calming base. With nothing but the ocean view and uninterrupted coastal aspect awaiting, the prized outdoor space is its own secluded retreat.
The main living, dining and kitchen areas then occupy the middle level and entry level, with the bedrooms and accompanying bathrooms located above. While there is an intentional feel of separation between the lower and upper levels, when fully occupied the home feels comfortable and generous, and by instilling an independence to the lower level, visitors are able to stay uninterrupted. With hosting and entertaining a core passion, ensuring the home had such capabilities and could expand and contract as needed, was key.
In an alignment with the Sydney warmer days and more consistent climate throughout the year, integrating sustainable mechanisms enabled the building to optimise the advantages of the site. By orienting the openings toward both the best views and the ideal solar connection, the interior is naturally light filled. Openings and façade elements can then also be pulled back to allow an ease of ventilation also, naturally tempering the spaces throughout the year, and encouraging the indoor and outdoor to feel as one.
A palette of textural and subtle finishes fills the home, both embracing a contemporary coastal vernacular, and one that reflects an appreciation of the context the home sits within. The ease at which spaces pour into one another, and out toward the views forms a key part of the experience of the home, with the landscape and retreat spaces servicing moments of stillness. As well as the landscaped areas that sit on the edges of the home, the internal courtyard provides a contrasting moment of protection from the elements. Open to the sky above, the space is protected from winds and sun yet allows the narrative of an outdoor lived life to continue as a breakup of the overall form.
The combining of water and more weighted materials inspires the name, as a shallow and safe harbour of sorts. Maintaining elements of the original home such as the overall footprint and the organically shaped pool ensure a retention of memory from what existed prior. Teetering out over the ocean below, the pool brings the element of water more intimately into the everyday, with the calming effect of water adding to an overall sensory enlivening. Through openness, connection and subtleties, Rock Pool becomes an orchestrated symphony of the surrounds, curated idyllically into a unique family and social residence.
Rock Pool
Deliberately modest from the front and aligned with the cliff-face water’s edge to the rear, Rock Pool sees the reimagining of a family home that focusses on togetherness and a deeply rooted connection to place. As an expression of how the owners want to live, the multi-level home balances a concealing of privacy with an open and flowing interior that extends effortlessly out into the surrounding dedicated gardens and terrace spaces.
Rock Pool
- Architecture Dods & Zuccon
- Builder Beebo Construcitions
- Landscaping Myles Baldwin Design
- Photography Prue Ruscoe
- Styling Olga Lewis
Replacing an existing home that sat previously on the site, the new form draws inspiration from the encompassing context and comes together as a grounded masonry form. Allowing for independent living on the lower most level, the aim was to create a destination hotel sensibility. With feature elements such as crazy-paving flooring caried from inside out, the select muted and softly toned colourings form a calming base. With nothing but the ocean view and uninterrupted coastal aspect awaiting, the prized outdoor space is its own secluded retreat.
The main living, dining and kitchen areas then occupy the middle level and entry level, with the bedrooms and accompanying bathrooms located above. While there is an intentional feel of separation between the lower and upper levels, when fully occupied the home feels comfortable and generous, and by instilling an independence to the lower level, visitors are able to stay uninterrupted. With hosting and entertaining a core passion, ensuring the home had such capabilities and could expand and contract as needed, was key.
In an alignment with the Sydney warmer days and more consistent climate throughout the year, integrating sustainable mechanisms enabled the building to optimise the advantages of the site. By orienting the openings toward both the best views and the ideal solar connection, the interior is naturally light filled. Openings and façade elements can then also be pulled back to allow an ease of ventilation also, naturally tempering the spaces throughout the year, and encouraging the indoor and outdoor to feel as one.
A palette of textural and subtle finishes fills the home, both embracing a contemporary coastal vernacular, and one that reflects an appreciation of the context the home sits within. The ease at which spaces pour into one another, and out toward the views forms a key part of the experience of the home, with the landscape and retreat spaces servicing moments of stillness. As well as the landscaped areas that sit on the edges of the home, the internal courtyard provides a contrasting moment of protection from the elements. Open to the sky above, the space is protected from winds and sun yet allows the narrative of an outdoor lived life to continue as a breakup of the overall form.
The combining of water and more weighted materials inspires the name, as a shallow and safe harbour of sorts. Maintaining elements of the original home such as the overall footprint and the organically shaped pool ensure a retention of memory from what existed prior. Teetering out over the ocean below, the pool brings the element of water more intimately into the everyday, with the calming effect of water adding to an overall sensory enlivening. Through openness, connection and subtleties, Rock Pool becomes an orchestrated symphony of the surrounds, curated idyllically into a unique family and social residence.
Rock Pool
Deliberately modest from the front and aligned with the cliff-face water’s edge to the rear, Rock Pool sees the reimagining of a family home that focusses on togetherness and a deeply rooted connection to place. As an expression of how the owners want to live, the multi-level home balances a concealing of privacy with an open and flowing interior that extends effortlessly out into the surrounding dedicated gardens and terrace spaces.
Rock Pool
- Architecture Dods & Zuccon
- Builder Beebo Construcitions
- Landscaping Myles Baldwin Design
- Photography Prue Ruscoe
- Styling Olga Lewis
Replacing an existing home that sat previously on the site, the new form draws inspiration from the encompassing context and comes together as a grounded masonry form. Allowing for independent living on the lower most level, the aim was to create a destination hotel sensibility. With feature elements such as crazy-paving flooring caried from inside out, the select muted and softly toned colourings form a calming base. With nothing but the ocean view and uninterrupted coastal aspect awaiting, the prized outdoor space is its own secluded retreat.
The main living, dining and kitchen areas then occupy the middle level and entry level, with the bedrooms and accompanying bathrooms located above. While there is an intentional feel of separation between the lower and upper levels, when fully occupied the home feels comfortable and generous, and by instilling an independence to the lower level, visitors are able to stay uninterrupted. With hosting and entertaining a core passion, ensuring the home had such capabilities and could expand and contract as needed, was key.
In an alignment with the Sydney warmer days and more consistent climate throughout the year, integrating sustainable mechanisms enabled the building to optimise the advantages of the site. By orienting the openings toward both the best views and the ideal solar connection, the interior is naturally light filled. Openings and façade elements can then also be pulled back to allow an ease of ventilation also, naturally tempering the spaces throughout the year, and encouraging the indoor and outdoor to feel as one.
A palette of textural and subtle finishes fills the home, both embracing a contemporary coastal vernacular, and one that reflects an appreciation of the context the home sits within. The ease at which spaces pour into one another, and out toward the views forms a key part of the experience of the home, with the landscape and retreat spaces servicing moments of stillness. As well as the landscaped areas that sit on the edges of the home, the internal courtyard provides a contrasting moment of protection from the elements. Open to the sky above, the space is protected from winds and sun yet allows the narrative of an outdoor lived life to continue as a breakup of the overall form.
The combining of water and more weighted materials inspires the name, as a shallow and safe harbour of sorts. Maintaining elements of the original home such as the overall footprint and the organically shaped pool ensure a retention of memory from what existed prior. Teetering out over the ocean below, the pool brings the element of water more intimately into the everyday, with the calming effect of water adding to an overall sensory enlivening. Through openness, connection and subtleties, Rock Pool becomes an orchestrated symphony of the surrounds, curated idyllically into a unique family and social residence.