A holiday house that intensifies the experience of the ocean expressed through the dramatic zigzag, wave-like looking roof.

Located at Florida Beach Western Australia, this design emphasises and focuses on the immense Indian Ocean. All space is aligned and extruded through a strict dialogue of plan and section revealing the intensity and variety of this great ocean.

This is a modern day holiday house only one hour from the capital of Western Australia and surrounded by the sprawling Perth suburbia. We are interested in the past and rapidly disappearing holiday homes that once dominated the nearby landscape, houses that embodied the weekender experience designed with restraint, economy and robustness.

A deck is created on each of the cardinal points allowing the occupants to live externally any time of the year.

Our reference point for the design was found in a sketch by the great Danish architect Jorn Utzon, an image of people congregating on the beach under the dense, stormy Copenhagen sky. Uzton translated this in to the section of a church creating a mystical interior; we translated this in to the section of a holiday house that intensifies the experience of the ocean.

ARCHITECT: Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects, Perth WA & Melbourne VIC, Australia. LOCATION: Florida Beach Western Australia. DESCRIPTION: residential. STATUS: completed. AREA: 520 sqm. TEAM LEADER: Adrian Iredale (Director in Charge). PROJECT TEAM: Finn Pedersen (Director), Martyn Hook (Director), Jemma Vandongen (Project Architect, Contract Administration), David Barr (Project Architect, Sketch Design & Documentation), Giancarlo Belviso (Model Construction), Kylene Tan. BUILDER: A T Brine and Sons. ENGINEER: Scott Smalley Partnership, Bill Butler Engineer. LANDSCAPER: Crispy Edges. DATE: 2010. No part of this web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Morfae and the copyright owner.