Sorrento House
Architecture
NMBW Architecture Studio
25.06.11
Sorrento house celebrates the idea of the traditional Australian Beach holiday. A series of flexible and interconnected spaces, the house is a sensitive and deft response to environment and site.
'A HUMBLE beach house, the Sorrento House by NMBW Architecture Studio, has taken out Victoria's top residential architectural prize - the Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award.
The ''sensitive development of a sensitive coastal site'' emerged as the winner from a strong field at the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian awards.
Sorrento House, elegantly designed from an economy of materials, impressed the jury with its inventive system of dividing partitions that fold, retract, swing and slide to define social and personal spaces.
Jury chairman John Wardle of John Wardle Architects said the house's ambitions had crossed the boundaries of the site to the benefit of neighbours. Outlook, wind patterns, the structure of the landscape and the composition of building mass had been negotiated with great care, he said.'
Beach house coasts to top design prize - Philip Hopkins and Ray Edgar, The Age Saturday 25 June 2011
