We are in Victoria, about an hour's drive west of Melbourne; here the team of Godsell Architects designs the "shelter among the rocks" as two translucent blocks, positioned at the eastern end of a monolithic concrete plinth: one volume for daytime and convivial functions, the other for sleeping quarters and toilets
Shelter among Australian rocks. Bright light and poetic space
Shelter among the rocks meets the primary requirements needed in rural and outback Australia: sheltering from the sun and rain, a proper outdoor living area. Cooking, eating, socializing while immersing oneself in the spectacle of the landscape
A highly poetic distribution of spaces controlled by the roof, which protects both interiors and exteriors, is inspired in Sean Godsell's mind by Riken Yamamoto's Yamakawa Cottage (1976). It is an "other" space, that hybrid of interior functions in a protected exterior, that place that the architect of the shelter among the rocks in Victoria wishes to compose for his clients
The architecture that emerges is an adaptation of a modified barn structure, including a translucent roofing material to allow light to pass through, and adapting some industrial grid walkways to create a sun-shading element for shade
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