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The Holman house by Durbach Blok Architects

The Holman house is located on the edge of a reef in Dover Heights, Australia. Created by Durbach Blok Architects it gained a lot of public interest. This family house provides a very modern open layout that maximizes accessibility of all rooms on both floors. Ground-floor houses a large living-room area viewing at the Pacific ocean, while the first floor is composed of a series of rooms organized in a vertical line along one of the walls. The shape of the house is a reset of more than six months long negotiations with the owner.

An interesting structure was built with a part of the building laying on a number of columns allowing to construct one part on the reef. A roofed terrace reconnects exterior with interior and provides an unusual atmosphere. Interior space is composed of glazed walls, fancy wooden flooring, stone and can be described as a modern mixture of materials and textures. The house is well embedded in the surrounding area complemented by unique plants growing only on the reef. The owners have to be with their investment admiring a fabulous view at the ocean and blue sky.