The Blue House is one of three weekenders built within a ‘family compound’ on the Mornington Peninsula, only a short walk along unpaved streets to the surf beach. The houses are set within a contiguous undulating landscape designed by Fiona Brockhoff. It is a garden haven. The spacious two-bedroom house replaces the original blue cottage. Unlike our earlier project Zac’s House, a masonry structure that hugs the terrain in the corner of the site, the new Blue House surveys its garden landscape from the centre. It is a lightweight structure skirted almost entirely by plantings. The orientation of the house is guided by the sweep of contours, and results in a stepping floorplane and singular raking roof.

The plan is tripartite – an open central living space flanked by wings with more enclosed spaces and private rooms. External louvres enable the modulation of sunlight and privacy to these areas. Multi-coloured, they enliven the mute grey of the raw fibre cement sheet cladding. The interior of the house is entirely blue, with a timber floor and ceiling plane. The house is filled with an eclectic collection of furniture, furnishings, artwork, mementos and vernacular crafts, which imbues a particular relaxed and lived-in atmosphere.

Material Used :
1. CSR – Facade Cladding – Barestone
2. Bluescope Lysaght – Roofing – Spandek‘Woodland Grey’ 
3. Luxalon – External Aluminium Window Louvres – Aerobrise, powdercoated 
4. Euro Aluminium – Windows – Clear Anodised Aluminium Windows
5. Euro Aluminium – Doors – Clear Anodised Aluminium Doors
6. Boral – Outdoor Bathroom – Designer Block 
7. Timber – External Decking – 60mm wide seasoned Tallowwood
8. Internal Floors – Recycled Tallowwood, Synteko Natural finish
9. Internal Walls – Timber Lining, Murobond ‘Whitewash’ – Colour: Aegean
10. Internal Ceiling – Exposed timber beams + plywood, Intergrain Ultraclear finish