Located on an amazing site outside Cowra NSW, Binni is a house for a farmer turned painter. The house sits on a plateau with enormous views over canola fields, and is broken into traditional ‘service’ and ‘served’ spaces with the service spaces being housed in a sculptural white brick form, and the living and sleeping spaces sitting under a fine skillion roof.
Views out of the house and carefully framed to capture key moments and immediate views, and the larger landscape beyond. The framed view at the entry is designed to capture the colours of the fields beyond through the year and the view from the bath is oriented to look back towards the original family homestead. Internally, walls and openings are carefully designed for the hanging of the owners own paintings and his extensive collection of works by Australian landscape painters. Joinery employs the soft curves of the exterior brick form and interiors are suitably muted in deference to the art and the living art outside.
