00:06Bruny Island is a small island off the southeast coast of Tasmania, with pristine beaches,
00:15mountains, rainforests, a sense of wildness. Bruny Island Hideaway is a small off-grid
00:24cabin. So, the purpose of the cabin is a pure retreat for our client. So, our client Sophia,
00:38she had a great love of Japanese architecture and minimalist sort of design. It was designed
00:45to have no loose furniture, so we've got single material that folds and adapts into benches,
00:52lofts. It's all part of the one object. We chose a Baltic pine because it has that real lightness,
01:01but it also has the richness that we were looking for. The cabin's 28 metres squared as a footprint.
01:09It also has an eight metre square loft and three six metre squared external decks. The design of
01:19the cabin was largely borne out of a response to the site. The views to the south are quite picturesque,
01:26whereas we needed to catch sun to the north. So, the roof is sloped to angle the solar panels directly
01:32to the winter sun. Rainwater is harvested from the roof and collected in underground tanks to keep the
01:38clearing uncluttered. The decks allow views to the south, whereas obviously the sun is from the north.
01:47So, we were trying to create a deck where you get both those views and still are quite sunny. So,
01:53the translucent sliding doors on each side of the building create a sense of containment. Once the
01:59doors are slid open, the small footprint of the cabin expands to a ten metre long axis. The design of
02:07the
02:08windows and doors generally was to remove all of the frames. When the large doors are completely open,
02:16and you just have this timber opening which pulls you out into the landscape. The daybed,
02:22it's a place to sit around the table and eat, but it's also a second sleeping space. There's storage
02:31underneath it. It's also, you know, it's a reading nook. We've got bookshelves built in. Sophia is a
02:38musician and she keeps her violins on the wall. And it's really just the main kind of space that you
02:45sort of want to hang out. The cabin was required to also have a laundry sink. This is set to
02:51the side
02:51so that it's a multifunctional bench. Inside of the cabinet is a combined washer dryer. Other parts of the
02:59kitchen, there's a concealed fridge within the cabinetry. There's a gas cooktop for quicker cooking
03:07or summertime and you don't want to heat the space at the same time. I guess the idea of it
03:11being a
03:11retreat, you have time to bake bread. The wood-fired oven is a beautiful ritual to cook your food.
03:21The loft created a very different spatial experience. It's very cosy and intimate up there. The low
03:29window is appropriate to lying in bed and looking out the window. The shelf around the bed with the
03:34concealed lighting is the alternative to a side table and then the glass balustrade from the loft
03:40also lets the light in and a view from the bed through the skylight. The cabin on the property is
03:47to be used as a base when there's multiple people camping on the side. So that door from the bathroom
03:53onto the northern deck allows for other guests to access the bathroom without disturbing people
04:00sleeping inside the cabin. We have a freestanding basin. We have an open shower. It's a very flexible
04:11open space. The idea of the bath really was about this kind of sense of retreat. The other side of
04:22that
04:22is recessing it in the deck meant that we were maximising the kind of use of the space.
04:32The pergola is a narrow doorway in the landscape that allows you to pass through and then when
04:39you walk down the stepping stones down towards the cabin it gives you the ability to have a real
04:44sense of arrival at the cabin. The cabin lends itself to this idea of escape and renewal
04:52in the landscape in the wilderness is a really kind of special thing that you don't normally get to do.
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