Backbeach Project

by Beaumont Concepts

The Backbeach Project by Beaumont Concepts features stunning frontline coastal views to the ocean horizon beyond.

The design brief stipulated a holiday home that was unashamedly bold whilst complimenting the natural coastal surroundings. The home needed to capture views of the ocean and feature a modern aesthetic inside and out. The client specified that the design must engage the environmental qualities of the site to capture natural light and utilise sustainable materials to minimise long term impacts on the environment.

The Backbeach Project by Beaumont Concepts is a visually stunning home that features the standard environmentally sustainable features of all Beaumont designs.

The house nestles into coastal vegetation via two stacked elongated volumes. One volume is clad in hardwood timber and the other utilises dark hued colorbond corrugated cladding. The hardwood timber wraps  featured in the Backbeach Project connect the internal spaces to the outdoors.

Arranged over two levels, the inner layout is interspersed with picture frame views that amplify the feeling of light and air within the house. The house and landscape are fully integrated, providing a series of fluid living zones and a continuous dialogue between the internal spaces and surrounding environment.

The Backbeach Project is the perfect pairing of form and function. The home features a robust palette that is bold yet restrained showing simplicity and refinement. The design embraces the functionality requested in the client brief within a low maintenance façade.

The façade exudes a timeless elegance that effortlessly melds with its coastal surrounds yet provides striking form in its rooflines. A combination of Colorbond Monument Steel and Silvertop Ash timber cladding resonate a stylish coastal ambience.

Low maintenance indigenous landscaping has complimented and enhanced the natural aspects of the home and provides shelter from the harsh coastal winds. The protected Northern entertaining area provides areas for dinner parties and family barbeques.

The Silverleaves home was designed with outdoor living and entertaining in mind. Large sliding doors from the dining and living areas open onto external deck areas that facilitate cross ventilation and promote air filled open living areas.

The first floor balcony provides an area to capture all that the coastline has to offer with its ever-changing oceanic outlook over the tea tree and sand dunes.

The homes interior radiates a relaxed holiday ambience with a contemporary design edge. Crisp white walls rise from concrete floors providing warmth and contrast to set the palette for the rest of the home. Carefully chosen elements such as dark joinery and benchtops in the kitchen add those extra finishing touches and give a contemporary character to the home.

Beaumont Concepts took several environmental factors into consideration when designing the home. Thermal mass within the concrete slab retains and releases warmth into the home while the eave overhangs on the western and northern areas of the home allow heat penetration and shading at the appropriate times of the year.

Natural sea breezes are taken advantage of via strategically placed double glazed windows, allowing cross ventilation and natural temperature control. An abundance of natural light flows throughout the home enhancing natural comfort integration of products that ensure optimal energy, water and materials utilisation. This further enhances the long term sustainability of the home.

Pairing striking aesthetic decisions with innovations in low maintenance materials has resulted in Beaumont Concepts creating a home that exudes contemporary simplicity and coastal appeal.

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