Designed by Casey Brown Architecture, this family home is located high on Bellevue Hill overlooking the city of Sydney. The client brief was 'sunlight', inspiring a series of three attached pavilions linked by a central stair over three levels. The north orientation of the building creates open, level courts bathed in sun all year round.
According to the architects, "The house sits on a rustic sandstone base with white rendered walls and large cantilevered zinc clad flat roofs. The central stair void and clearstory acts along with banks of two storey vertical louvers to the south to naturally ventilate the building. Cool air is drawn up this space from below ground rooms. Internally the floors, windows and doors are all oak with vental external blinds to the first floor."