Wind Piercer
This new house is located in SA’s remote far south limestone coast, near the Victorian boarder. The house is sited behind the sand dunes with no direct view to the ocean, but is situated in a beautiful wide open landscape with distant views to the dormant volcano of Mount Shank.
Like a weather vane, the house turns its back into the southerly winds and creates a sheltered north facing sun trapping courtyard.
The project takes form queues from two old shearing sheds. The wonderful old Hynam Woolshed, a gracious old asymmetrical stone building in SA’s South East with a low dark side to run sheep and a high lighter working side for shearers, and the woolshed at Ryelands Farm in the SA’s mid north with a similar form.
The roof of the proposed house narrows down to pierce into the wind. Additionally the house is planned around two air locks that insulate and moderate the inside from outside. This all makes the most of site’s orientation and need to create shelter in a wild and chilly part of the state at Eight Mile Creek.
