Beach House by Candour

ArchiPro Project Summary - Beach House designed to harmonize with its coastal surroundings, featuring a Candour Glazed Structural Timber Façade that maximizes ocean views and integrates extensive glazing for a seamless indoor-outdoor experience.

Title:: Beach House
Architect:: Candour
Category:: Residential/; New Builds

Positioned on the edge of the ocean Coles Beach Close House was designed to be completely immersed within the landscape. The Candour Glazed Structural Timber Façade maximise views out over the ocean. A dark ebony stain helps to make the window frames inconspicuous and focuses attention outwards.

Combined with a BINQ three panel sliding door the house opens completely to the landscape, blurring the boundary between inside and out.

The face fixed glazing protects the timber from the elements increasing its longevity while allowing the warmth of the natural timber to be expressed internally.

The extensive glazing makes the Candour Glazed Structural Timber Façade integral to the design and structural response of the house.

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Candour

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Tottenham, Melbourne, Victoria

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Candour. Founded by five Architects in 2022, including the directors of award-winning practice Archier, Candour evolved from first-hand experience of shortcomings in the current design and construction process.Currently, it’s challenging to build great buildings; that are well-crafted, sustainable and healthy to live in. From soaring prices to opaque processes, building great homes has become significantly harder over time. As a group, we became frustrated observing how technology was improving efficiencies for many other industries, meanwhile, the construction industry was seemingly becoming slower and less efficient.Through Archier, we began exploring different methods of prefabrication, like SIPs and CLT. While these products achieved great outcomes, the process of design and delivery resulted in more complications than traditional building, especially when working with offshore manufacturers and systems that were new to local trades. Seeing no option that improved both building products and processes, we decided to create the solution ourselves. Candour is an entirely new approach to prefabrication that improves every aspect of design and construction, making the delivery of high-quality and sustainable buildings straightforward for Architects and Designers, so more people can access the benefits of good designThrough Candour, we hope to leave a lasting mark on improving the way we design, build and live.