Billy Maynard . photos: © Rory Gardiner . + The Local Project
The House at Flat Rock has a primary aspect towards a National Park. Every move serves to heighten the spatial journey across the modest site. A drawn out journey from the street to the entry is via a wild meadow courtyard enclosed by a taut roof of weath- ered steel plate, crisply defined against the rough brick façade.
The location of the house in a bushfire prone area precipitated a palette of masonry, concrete, hardwood and steel plate. Operable shutters to comply with bushfire regulations serve to mediate privacy, microclimate and the internal relationship to landscape. Plays of light and darkness reveal a veil of brickwork made pos- sible by irregular bonds and cuts. In daylight hours the building form disappears against the analogous pallet of eucalyptus – grey trunks and red resin. Continue reading Billy Maynard
