A Shipping Container Home in Rural Australia Delivers Views at Every Turn

Project Specifics:

Place: Colo River, NSW, Australia

Architect: Benn + Penna / @benandpenna_architecture

Builder: Underhill Constructions, Mountain Gum Constructions, and Craig Miller

Photographer: Tom Ferguson / @tfadtomferguson

From the Architect: “Colo Crossings is a new dwelling for retreat, located 100 kilometers northwest of Sydney’s CBD, and sitting down atop a steeply sloping hill to the river. The project is conceived as a 3-dimensional weave of landscape and constructing, letting motion through in both equally the prepare and area. A plunge pool sits at the coronary heart of the making and is the central void to which the application and circulation are anchored. The residence is created of transport container units, with 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms and an open strategy kitchen, residing, eating place. The spaces are organized to allow for for a looping circulation sample, permitting occupants to move cyclically by the house appropriately to the modifying time of the day and weather conditions ailments. From the entry promenade, the property is a periphery for viewing the landscape. One can see ideal as a result of the dwelling at its heart like a telescope, foregrounding the immediacy of the landscape’s existence.”