Beatty Street | B.E. Architecture

Beatty Street is a six storey home that has been excavated into the limestone hillside providing living areas for a multigenerational family. It’s a largely horizontal home situated in a vertical landscape.

Terraced balconies form a series of projected planes that follow the fall of the hillside creating a single cohesive monumental form. The stacked form of the building allows for maximisation of outdoor space creating privacy from the parkland below.

It is engaged with more than just the harbour views via a centralised six storey internal light court and garden providing a dual aspect home. An inserted sculptural limed oak ribbon stair exchanges horizontal view lines for a dramatic vertical form.

Social areas are in the middle floors of the stacked elevation, allowing the family to always maintain close connection, while also being able to retreat to private quiet areas on the levels above and below.