Situated on the southern coast of NSW, the site is a spectacular landscape between the ocean and western mountains with a nearby lake to the north. It is exposed, windswept and rugged. The clients had owned the land for many years using it for camping holidays and were interested in a house with tent like qualities. The building is a single pavilion divided by a central court and can operate as two self contained suites, one for the parents, the other for guests or family. Living areas open onto the shared court and a connection is implied between these adjacent spaces. The separate proposed garage bay in the plan illustrated was never realised.(Source: http://www.ozetecture.org/2012/magney-house/)

Architect: Glenn MurcuttLocation: Bingie Point, New South Wales, AustraliaYear: 1982-1984/1999

Magney House

Southeast Exterior.

Site Plan.

View of Entrance to Dining Room and North Side.

Entrance to the East.

View of Entrance to the East Side.

Dining Room. Bedroom,

GRID

Private spaces with garage, children’s bedroom, master bedroom are on the each side of the house. Public spaces are concentrated in the middle of the house. Two mixed-use public spaces connect to the court yard, which opens to the outside space.

PRIVATE &PUBLIC

The frame in this house builds a rectangular grid, which clearly organizes space and seperate different uses of space.

INDOORCIRCULATION

The living area are on the north side of Magney House, while served spaces, such as kitchen and bathrooms, are arranged on the south side of the house. These two area are seperated by the linear corridor in the middle.

SERVED & UNSERVED

Magney House exhibits a linear indoor circulation for connecting spaces. All of the rooms are positioned on either side of this corridor.

This series investigates the house with different sizes of window, which offer different level lightings and different view ranges to the house.

The more open side is treated as a glazed sliding screen with individually adjustable. The large angled roof overhang shades the building from summer sun and allows winter sun access. In other side, the lower rear wall facing the predominant southerly winds is largely closed and is constructed of reverse brick veneer.

LIGHTS & VIEWS

INDOOR & OUTDOOR

CONNECTION

With a linear corridor in the house, the outdoor circulation is served as a rectangular. On the both east and west sides, the outside corridor connects to the inside corridor. They also connect by the living open yard in the middle of the house.

SPACEORGANIZATION

Since it has a irregular wave-shaped roof top, the heights of the rooms are based on the height of the roof top. The ceiling height of unserved spaces with a semi-outdoor dining room are higher than that of served spaces. That provide a good experience The corridor in the middle has the lowest ceiling height in the house.

WINDOWSORGANIZATION

Upper windows along the southern face bring light and view of sky into the room. Because of its location, large french windows along the northern face allow more light flowing into the building.

STORMWATERMANAGEMENT

There is a large gutter through two parts of the roof tops. It can collect the stormwater and connect to the two pipes on the east and west side of the building. The shape of the roof tops also help collect the stormwater.

In this structure of Magney House, the steel frame of the house with steel curved roofs on the top shaped two diffierent faces of Magney House. All of the rooms are faced to the north or south direction, which provides more outside view for people in the north side. Spaces in the house are seperated into two main areas along with the shape of the inresda

STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION