Richard Leplastrier

摘要

This small house is located in Lovett Bay, on the fringe of Sydney's Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park along the western shores of Pittwater, a sunken river valley. Although on the mainland, access is only by water. The local climate is tempered by the Pacific Ocean and the warm East Coast current, which mediates the mild subtropical nature. The site receives power and is otherwise autonomous.The project explores architecture as a vessel and a cradle for the family. The form of the building is elemental, conceived as a single room within a "greater room", the walls of which are the surrounding cliffs, and the floor the shifting tidal level of the river below, which rises and falls nearly two meters every six hours.