Kross House takes shape with a pavilion style layout
Australian company Figr Architecture Studio completes his Kross house, which seems to float over the landscape of Mount Martha, a coastal district in Victoria. Anchored by the natural rock and kept in the air by a unique V-shaped steel column, the one-story pillar home Draw over the sloping area. With its pavilion layout in different living and guest wings, KRSS HOUSE retreat and interaction split in a liquid, architectural gesture.
The project mixes nostalgia with modern spatial logic and represents the classic beach house. It is reminiscent of the weatherpower of the coastal retreats and is organized for a cross -shaped layout – a literally cross that determines the spatial river along the cardinal axes. Like the promenades along the coast of Mount Martha, this intersection becomes a journey for itself and leads the residents through breeze, decks and rooms that extend into the landscape.
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Figr Architecture Studio emphasizes the meantime
With his crispy house the team At Figr Architecture Studio, Studio emphasizes the interimity. The cross-shaped core is a circulation room, a summer breeze and a protected deck in colder months. These transition zones demonstrate the reaction of the project to both the location and to the climate and increase a complex experience of life indoors and outdoors.
The Architect Use wood not only as a material, but also as a connective tissue. The wood creates both interior and outer surfaces and creates a uniform tactile experience that earths the floating structure in the earthy tones of the surrounding bushland. In the following, the sub -Kroft – often forgotten or left to the supply company – was reinterpreted as a secret garden, a contemplative hiding place that strengthens the feeling of retreat.
An airy, modern beach house
Kross House introduces a triangular north deck, which Figr Architecture Studio designs to open through operational sliding doors and dissolve the border between the house and the horizon. This gesture stretches out and invites you to the rhythm of the coastal air. At the highest point in the location, the house increases a look at the foreland and hides an 18-meter round pool that extends under the north-south axis of the structure.
The architects integrate sustainability into both daily life and long -term performance. The movement is encouraged by paths that wind over the location, while passive design strategies use the prevailing breeze and the solar orientation. A 20,000-liter water tank, solar collectors with battery storage and double glazing are part of a series of energy-efficient features.
The Kross House also shows a commitment to local materials and a low structure. Wooden frames windows and cladding are sustainably covered, while the plasterboard has been completely eliminated in favor of breathable surfaces. The result is a house that is as aware of how it is composed.
The team expands its ecological sensitivity with its landscape, which was designed in cooperation with Mud Office. Here native plantings support biological diversity, improve ecological resilience and create a living system that makes the edge between the built and natural environments soft.
With the project, Figr Architecture Studio offers a contemporary attitude to Australian coastal life. Due to its cross -shaped plan, wood material and the layered interaction with the landscape, it transforms a sloping place into a place of the quiet drama, the spatial clarity and the environmental sizes.
