Max Pritchard Architect has designed a permanent home/office on his client’s small property, located one hour’s drive from Adelaide. The house was build as a modern bridge house as it located on a bend in the winter creek, above a billabong (a deep waterhole) bounded by a high rocky bank.
The design of the house is a narrow house form, spans over the creek. Glazing each side opens the house to views in both directions, giving the feeling of living amongst the trees.
Two steel trusses forming the primary structure, were fabricated off site and erected by two men and a crane in two days. They were anchored by four small concrete piers, poured each side of the creek. Spanning between the trusses is a concrete floor slab on steel decking with a layer of rigid insulation. The “box” walling and roofing is plantation pine.
Photography by Sam Noonan
