"The Cubby" located at Queensland's Sunshine Coast beachside suburb of Alexandra Headland is a traditional 1970's beach shack reborn.

The original beachside bachelor pad consisted of a single pavilion set back from the street on a generous leafy beachside property offering ocean views if the Cubby extended skyward. 

When the property owner meet his new love it was time to give the much-loved beachside bachelor pad a facelift and create a design outcome to suit both parties in particular the new women in his life. 

A women's touch was struck upon The Cubby. 

The Cubby was reborn!

The design exercise was to give the building a much-needed facelift while being sensitive to the Cubby of the past.

A sloping block the design exercise was to bridge the original Cubby pavilion with a new pavilion addition on the high side of the property via a two-storey open breezeway connecting both pavilions, creating a common break out / circulation space. 

The original Cubby pavilion was extruded vertically creating a second storey master suite and secondary living space taking advantage of the distant ocean, Old Women Island views. 

The result was a new age Cubby consisting of a series of pavilions offering an airy living experience connected via a common breezeway. 

Long live "The Cubby".

Photography by Corey Schweikert

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