Dunghutti
New South Wales
Regional
Greybox is an experiment. Set in a seaside suburban setting, Greybox takes the idea of a verandah homestread turned inside out, cross bred with a beachside motel, a tractor shed and a cloistered abbey.
It’s a house for living outside – as much possible – with a series of separate rooms around a 3-sided verandah wrapping a courtyard. It’s intrinsically connected to it’s environment – a courtyard house for an urban site, one that maximises landscape and connections with climate and country.
COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture – Commendation
Greybox is a master class in the use of ordinary materials deployed in sophisticated ways. Gently inhabiting a redundant backyard, the holiday house responds to setting while dealing with constraints on all sides (fire, flood, powerlines and neighbours). The plan updates courtyard typology, focusing spaces towards a lush central garden, wrapped by an open-air veranda.
Restrained, sustainable (2/3 less embodied carbon) and experimental, Greybox combines technical exploration with personal expression, creating an inspirational model for suburban density and material economy.
COLORBOND Shortlist, Sustainability shortlist
COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture - Commendation
Greybox is a master class in the use of ordinary materials deployed in sophisticated ways. Gently inhabiting a redundant backyard, the holiday house responds to setting while dealing with constraints on all sides (fire, flood, powerlines and neighbours). The plan updates courtyard typology, focusing spaces towards a lush central garden, wrapped by an open-air veranda.
Restrained, sustainable (2/3 less embodied carbon) and experimental, Greybox combines technical exploration with personal expression, creating an inspirational model for suburban density and material economy.
It's our house. Or our experiment/ holiday house. We don't get there much, but when we do we love it. We love that lots of people get to share it. We love the opportunity to live a little differently when we are there.