Located in Victoria, Australia, Croft is a project completed by James Stockwell Architects. The home has a futuristic design that contrasts starkly with the surrounding countryside, giving it a very unique quality.
According tot he architects: ?Full outlook to and shelter from the coastal vistas in all directions and to be part of the landscape. An unobtrusive unembellished “best practice” home of how to blend in and live together with a magnificent natural environment.? The design looks at the core idea of shelter in an exposed environment, and that shelter may contain all the necessary activities of domestic life in an uncompromised way but that the activities are enhanced by participating in the whole and each yields to the other to a much greater extent. It is shielding, robust and embracing. It sets out primarily to achieve the expectations of the owners. It reinforces the language of the rural context of corrugated iron and purposefulness. More broadly it?s ambitions are to illustrate the suitability of low embodied energy local materials in contemporary architecture and that architecture be able to tell a story of place and vernacular of local craftsmanship and materials.
