Cozy Shearers Quarters by John Wardle Architects
John Wardle Architects have designed a building on a sheep farm on North Bruny Island in Tasmania, Australia. The building comes into prominence as a companion building to the already existing historic cottage on a working sheep farm. The strange geometry of the walls is imposing the shape of the internal walls, lining boards and window frames.
The house is placed on a hill offering a nice and romantic view over the sea, looking like a lighthouse illuminating sailors’ destiny on stormy weather. A singular palette of materials is used to combine iron of the exterior with timber of the interior. There is a large living room, continuing with the dining space and the kitchen area inside, everything furnished in a rustic style, perfectly adapted to the destination of the whole farm. Wooden furniture melts into the modernity of the floor to ceiling glass walls, which allows the sea to come into the house and greet people every morning.
The house shelters also a bathroom, a laundry and two bedrooms, lined in recycled apple box crates. The strange geometry of the ceilings ads personality to every room and transforms the house into a cozy shelter for bad weather.
