00:00It's been designed to touch the earth lightly.
00:03The idea was to create something that had minimal impact on the landscape.
00:14House 28 is made from three shipping containers,
00:18which is about 44 square meters.
00:20The large volume is two of those joined together,
00:23which is the living and kitchen,
00:24and the smaller one has two bedrooms with a little bathroom.
00:29The house is shaped like a boomerang so that it hugs itself
00:31and the deck forms a sort of space between.
00:36The structure of the house is a series of concrete piers
00:39and then above that there's a lightweight steel structure,
00:42which then provides a platform for this house.
00:46When you do actually go inside the house,
00:49it feels immediately as though you're up amongst the trees.
00:52As you walk along the house, it goes right out over the hill
00:55and the boomerang shape faces the ocean.
00:59House 28 is wrapped in a skin of galvanised metal sheet.
01:03It's a sort of a robust material.
01:06It also takes on a really nice quality over time
01:09as it becomes part of the environment and landscape around,
01:12reflecting some of the colours,
01:13and then on top of that there's a green roof.
01:15So that allows water to then be harvested from the rain
01:18and it provides thermal mass for the house.
01:22The interior is about a sort of a really intimate, warm, tactile experience.
01:28Using a marine designer ply was pretty much key to the entire scheme.
01:34It just creates that seamless feeling of space.
01:37The internal linings provide another layer of insulation.
01:40You can sort of come in here and take your shoes off
01:42and feel timber underfoot, which is really cosy.
01:45In the location, which is next to the ocean,
01:47it needs to be durable.
01:49You know, it can be maintained over time.
01:50I mean, the wonderful thing about timber is you can sand it down and recoat it.
01:54With the project, it's also, you know, it's trying to be honest about what it's made from,
01:58so the containers aren't really concealed.
02:00And it's quite fun, I think, to, you know, reuse the way that the doors work.
02:05It's literally a box we're in, but I think it's fun to try and break out of that,
02:10try and add some dynamic to the interior space,
02:12to add excitement, to make things connected.
02:14The living and the bedroom actually connect through the container doors,
02:17which can be opened at the ends, break that up a bit
02:20and to have these different configurations.
02:21It's about connecting everything, so using the island bench as, you know,
02:26part kitchen, part, you know, workspace, part dining space,
02:29and the geometry breaking away from this sort of rigid box.
02:33The lighting and the quality of it, it's sort of a whiter light,
02:37and sort of pick up the ambience of the plywood.
02:39That sort of creates that warmth and that glow at night.
02:43So I suppose it's a sort of a minimalist type design,
02:48and it's all about sort of framing those views from the interior out,
02:53because it's about being part of this landscape and connecting to that.
03:04So here are the purineries that again,
03:06but it's called the playful place.
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