EASTOP ARCHITECTS learns and works on the land of the Wurundjeri People.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians as the first place makers on this land.
We pay our respect to their care and knowledge of this special country and culture.
Courtyard on the cliff is a project focused on crafted and raw architecture, landscape, art, and quality. Situated on the Mornington Peninsula within the coastal cliffs of Somers.
A rammed earth courtyard house on a sloped cliff site, the project will serve as our family home, a design music studio, and a gathering space to host events and a home office. Raw stone tile floors and a altered internal landscape, an internal ramp shifts internal topography, raising the ground floor plane to a level one sightline, bringing the views eye to the horizon beyond and providing ocean views from two levels.
Designed to feel intimate, yet capable of hosting and entertaining. A central entertaining pavilion acts focal point towards the front garden and internal courtyard, creating a public space for gathering. Materials are honest, raw, and enduring. The project reflects a deep consideration of context, borrowing from the local context soil composition and to be built through a process centered on quality and spatial experience.