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This two-level Beach house is located on a 2271-square-meter site in Sunshine Beach with a sloping ground plain towards the Sunshine beach shore creating magnificent views towards the sea.  The house was designed for prominent high-profile businessmen and his family of two adult sons who live together with parents. The architect states, The restrictive codes that we have been working under, plus our client’s aspirations for more program and facilities, have moved us to use lover ground level of the slopy site for the privacy of bedroom suites thus to look at different ways of transmitting light to the lower level.

An entry courtyard is screened from the street. The garage is located on the lower level and reached by a ramp. It has a large window facing a sunken courtyard that contains a large rectangular water feature. A transparent entry bridge crosses over this courtyard, leading to the living area in the direction of the rear outdoor infinity pool with views of Sunshine beach. The kitchen and family room opens to the rear outdoor infinity pool as well as an enclosed private garden at the front. The infinity pool mid-section designed to be floating above the lower level and outdoor stair stepdown through to the love level under the floating pool creating a gateway towards the beach. This special feature of the pool is the star of this beach house and that creates a magical view from the main entry.  The bar and family lounge gym and sauna and fireplace are on the love level in addition to bedroom suites create ultimate luxury for private lower level living space. Generous operable glazing gives the house a feeling of lightness and openness that is surely appropriate to the Brisbane Sunshine coast climate thus allowing enjoying the beach. In fact, seen from the rear garden from the beach,

the house appears to be made up of a narrow black roof plane sitting above the pool, with its walls largely made of glass, with only relatively thin black columns connecting the roof to the ground level. This is in direct contrast to the street side of the home, which is predominantly clad in off form look concretes, giving only fleeting glimpses to the interior through timber lattice screen. Furnishing and finishes are soft and modern, with an emphasis on the blue, white to beige colour range; outdoor areas readily penetrate inside spaces that compliment distance beach views.

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