By Starbox Architecture
Brief
Renovate an existing Spanish villa into a luxury home worthy of the golf course edge location.
Challenges & Solutions
The owners wanted to ensure that the new home looked like a new house. The challenge was to use the existing form, structure and layout and create a new theme and colour palette that had reasoning. The chosen material palette assisted in breaking up the form and adding colour and texture to the facade. A game changer was enclosing the existing balcony that framed the views to the golf course and the beaches beyond. It became a space that would be used during all seasons, out of the wind, complete with fireplace and ceiling mounted heating panels. Viewed from the golf course it has a striking and dynamic form that expresses the mutual beauty and qualities of the selected materials.
Materials
Alucabond from Hvg Facades. Split face 'Shell' Limestone from Limestone Australia. Burnt Ash timber cladding from Mortlock Timber.
At Starbox Architecture - we humanise spaces.
This means creating spaces that promote social interaction, engagement and connection. We focus on spaces individually, collectively and how we experience spatial sequences.
We are driven by the brief, site location, local elements and human value. We believe that working collaboratively alongside clients and consultants with effective communication, ensures that the brief is ultimately addressed and realised. Our designs are individual, site specific and client driven with character, purpose and individuality that are intimately connected to the client.
We respond to the context of the site in a dynamic manner that is both relevant and appropriate to create a built form that is physically beautiful and enriches the lives of it’s occupants pragmatically and aesthetically. We are always conscious of passive environmentally sustainable design principles which include consideration of the material palette and the manner in which the building elements are connected to the surrounding environment. We are a multi-disciplinary practice that has delivered many projects of varying diversity, scale and complexity and has proven capability in both design and delivery.