Showcase Gallery

Bark Design Architects

Coastal Architecture

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  Bark Design Studio
  Elevated as a modernist steel and glass pavilion in the Noosa Hinterland, Sunshine Coast is home to Bark Design Architects. Perched on four steel footings in order to slot between two mature Eucalypts, the modular 20 metre long steel structure of steel portal frames is enclosed with glazing on three sides, framing the broad views of the coastline from Noosa to Coolum.
  Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones
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  Noosa Visitor Information Centre
  Beneath the ‘canopy’, the visitors’ experience is inextricably linked to the surrounding natural landscape qualities, site and climate as it allows Northern light and winter sun through the space and onto the footpath whilst the roof cantilevers over the street to enable a larger and more ambiguous arrival and gathering experience of inside and outside space - the main public visitor information space becomes part of the life of the street.
  Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones
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  Hervey Bay House
  This is a simple long thin house with all its living spaces open to the north and the water views of Hervey Bay.Shaded beneath one continuous roof plane, two lightweight glazed pavilions are connected by ‘outdoor living’. This zone links a wind protected ‘calm’ courtyard on the South through to an ambiguous indoor / outdoor breezeway space towards the North.
  Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones
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  Tinbeerwah House
  This hinterland house contains two main interconnected, steel framed volumes for living and sleeping, perched high on the site to take in broad views of the Pacific coastline with the forested hinterland in the foreground. The main spaces step down and run with the natural topography, connecting in section via the double height living and northern pool deck space, whilst a separate ‘silver shed’ art studio projects out across the fall of the slope, creating a south lit, plywood lined space for painting, high in the trees.
  Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones
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  Noosa River Foreshore Amenities
  Whilst embracing the character and ambience of the river foreshore, this public amenities building physically frames the Noosa River between two timber pavilions.
  Photographer:Shannon McGrath
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  Marcus Beach House
  North facing, this beach house celebrates an existing sculptural Moreton Bay Ash tree on its coastal site. Two contemporary timber pavillions, sited to embrace the tree and create a calm landscape courtyard, are lightly connected with a double level glazed bridge.
  Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones
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  China Beach House 1770
  Celebrating its natural, coastal setting, the house provides its occupants with an inextricable link to the landscape. Exploring ideas of lightness, layers of transparency and integrating indoor/outdoor living, this house is a simple series of stepped timber platforms that enable a contemporary coastal lifestyle to unfold within a very special landscape.
  Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones
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  Glass House Mountain House
  Engaging with existing topography, orientation, views and vegetation, the house balances economy and fine craft. It celebrates economical finishes, directness, authenticity, natural, textured and unadorned surfaces which are embroidered with highly crafted timber elements and pieces.
  Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones
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  Caloundra Regional Art Gallery
  The Gallery is conceived as a sinuous volume with soft, fluid contours. Sitting within the twisted forms and papery skin of several Melaleuca trees, the gallery focuses all attention to a new curving, free form, steel and timber, glazed enclosure. This maintains a sensitive relationship to the landscape through varying degrees of transparency, translucency, shadow, reflection, colour and contrast.
  Photographer: Peter Hyatt