An Architect’s Own House Situated on a Remote Beach (House Tour)

As an architect’s own house, St Andrews Beach House is imbued with a sophisticated understanding of place, material and functionality. Located in the Mornington Peninsula, the holiday home explores the ways that built form and the landscape connect through considered, patient intervention. Originally a series of sand dunes, St Andrews Beach House is visually inspired by the primitive nature of its surrounds. As an architect’s own house, the structure was built over four stages and, without competition to the site’s landscape, emerges as a robust yet delicate construction. To protect from the intensity of the weather, the home recedes to the north with a cabana and accompanying private pool. There is a deliberate connection made between the water and the site’s neighbouring ocean – the glass within the house, linking the home’s two volumes, facilitates this connection and allows a deliberate water-to-water moment to occur. St Andrews Beach House is an architect’s own house and