Inside a Sustainable Beach Cabin Designed as an Escape From the City (Cabin Tour)

St Andrews Beach House is a holiday cabin by Austin Maynard Architects informed by a passion for sustainability. The circular cabin captures sunlight and breezes while allowing nature to regrow healthily around it. The flat roof captures water for the gardens and bathrooms. Sustainable materials include timber, double glazed windows and a concrete slab contributing thermal mass to the cabin. Additionally, a heat pump system heats the water and the slab, keeping the house warm during the winter.
Locally sourced eucalypt timber ensures the cabin can stand against time and the coastal elements. It also contributes to the cabin’s sustainability, capturing of carbon instead of producing it. The material is used inside as well, continuing both the warm, raw aesthetic and the sustainability benefits throughout. Designed as one structural module repeated 26 times around, the efficiency of the cabin’s construction was optimised. It is also made to be demountable, so that clients are able to either dismantle or salvage the materials for another build in future, if needed.
With the importance of sunlight stressed in the brief, large louvre doors were installed to allow light to flood through, and on days when the weather is blossoming, the doors can be opened to connect the deck with the living and dining areas of the cabin. Due to its circular structure, the beach side cabin can capture or exclude the breeze whenever there is a need, and, as the spiral staircase in the centre leads up the private bedroom spaces, circulation of air and sun can continue around the entire cabin.
With a playful and sustainable rationale, St Andrews Beach House is a home away from home that gives back to the surrounding land.
00:00 - Introduction to St Andrews Beach House
00:37 - The Beachside Location
01:04 - The Vision Behind The House
01:24 - Taking Inspiration From New Zealand Bach's
01:57 - A Bach Type Layout
02:16 - Sustainably Small But Mighty
02:55 - A Carbon Storage Home
03:08 - Conditional Timber Selections
03:45 - The Importance of Sunlight
04:15 - The Positives of A Circular Home
04:38 - A Demountable Home
05:16 - Proud Moments In Designing and Creating The Home
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Photography by Derek Swalwell.
Architecture and Interior Design by Austin Maynard Architects.
Build by Spence Construction.
Landscape by Jane Burke Bush Restoration.
Engineering by OPS Engineers.
Energy Consulting by Efficient Energy Choices.
Building Surveying by Steve Watson & Partners.
Filmed and Edited by Dan Preston.
Production by The Local Project.
The Local Project Acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners of the land in Australia. We recognise the importance of Indigenous peoples in the identity of our country and continuing connections to Country and community. We pay our respect to Elders, past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Indigenous people of these lands.
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We hope you enjoyed our second episode from The Sustainability Series - St Andrew's Beach House by Austin Maynard Architects. You may recognise Andrew from his great KZbin channel, ArchiMarathon! For more of the latest and greatest in architecture, interior design and house tours, make sure to subscribe to our tri-annual hardcopy print publication - thelocalproject.com.au/subscribe

[@ixlnxs]

I absolutely love it but I'd like to know the dimensions in detail. That is one thing often missing in clips like this. Congratz to Mr Maynard!

[@trevoraboussafy6900]

Wow! What a place. And nice to see the local project do a house that isn’t a concrete and timber box

[@julieuk5855]

Amazing. I like both the utility of the house and the thought about keeping out the sun in Summer and letting the sun flood through in winter. X

[@kylefarrell8166]

I love that the final form still shows so much of the fundamentals of the design. Genius. The owners are very lucky people to have this!

[@Timzart7]

I love it. An occupant would never stop marveling at the structure and the beauty of the wood. The surroundings are also, of course, amazing. It's also good to know that some people who could afford an architect-designed cabin of this quality, would go for something that modest in size.

[@old0range]

Love Andrew Maynard! love watching his youtube channel on design as well! This was a really well designed and excellently presented home! no use of pretentious language with the focus on the outcome - sustainability, materials and the philosophy behind the build. Thanks for featuring this one local project team! really enjoyed it

[@charlesm835]

What a unique, peaceful home. Brilliant.

[@robertrusso877]

I love the work of Austin Maynard Architects. Incredible, thoughtful design solutions. Looks like I have to move to Australia so they can design something for me … 😊

[@OuchMyNardz]

I was sold from the first shot of the interior. Such a gorgeous space. The efficiency is really just a bonus too.

[@littlenest]

This is a beautiful structure sitting in an equally beautiful setting! The spaces look so cleverly arranged, the only slight disappointment is the lack of privacy in the bedrooms from the curtain walls but then the house is so beautiful I guess anybody living here wouldn't mind constantly having to whisper. ❤

[@spiralpython1989]

More ‘traditional’ Australian beach houses were shacks, with thin walls or curtain dividers and often with dormitory style sleeping areas. (Family sized tents and permanently sited holiday caravans with canvas annexes have also been super typical holiday accommodations in Australian beach towns.) I could very easily live full time in this house!

[@larsstougaard7097]

If I could live in that house , I would gladly be silent or whisper to enjoy life there, I would be outdoor most of the day and be in nature.

[@BE-bs8oe]

@@spiralpython1989 yeah, our shacks just didn't have the same pricetags. So for the enormeous amount of money one might have certain expectancies. A dustbowl it is, although very pretty indeed. Is expensive durable building still ecofriendly?

[@haitipd]

Thumbs up to mark watched :0) Their collection is amazing and I'm still watching archival pieces after a year. These short but inciteful works are best played on the lunch hour. Anyone else?!

[@wrigleyextra11]

Wow thanks for this! Much deserved feature Andrew! If you're wondering why he is so good at talking about his project its because he has the channel Archiemarathon about architecture - highly recommend it!

[@kwhatten]

Very pretty!

[@ninapollock5267]

These videos bring me so much peace. Thanks for sharing such incredible and beautiful work with us!!!

[@danaesquires7571]

Well done Andrew.

[@deborahpercell321]

This is my absolute favorite so far! Thank you for sharing

[@mrvk39]

I love this! It's so functional, yet elegant! I love passive house homes and it's a wonderful example of that.

[@thinkplanetearth2946]

Wonderful home and design. Love the materials used and minimalism of the space. For me, I would've considered reversing the layout by having the bedrooms downstairs and the living room, (where one generally spends most of one's time), upstairs to take advantage of the views.

[@giornogiovanna3902]

Gorgeous and brilliant design holy molly

[@cpanczak]

Brilliant and beautiful. Form follows function. More of this in our built environment please.

[@kayelle8005]

Beautiful project.

[@anvidixit2023]

a true futuristic home 👏👏 seems like something out of a fiction novel

[@LS-kg6my]

Gorgeous

[@zoeolsson5683]

Beautiful Simply stunning. I love all of it.

[@ageispolis4605]

really incredible

[@Ren-1979]

I love it.

[@frankdeleon8836]

It's like something Gustave Eiffel would have built had he been into minimalism and passive design. This house is fantastic!!!

[@ardbuijsen8735]

Well he would have used a lot less material I would think. It is a nice house but it is needlessly crude in its detailing in my opinion.

[@TruthQuest4700]

Simply brilliant!

[@boboneill6554]

Gorgeous house.

[@darwinmcquerter7463]

Great design!

[@snowwhite-jt9cj]

Beautiful ideas …lots details 💡the architecture in the such great environment☁️.so amazing 🌳

[@fldaniel7]

Beautiful design and the location is amazing

[@bthdimension]

As someone who values privacy, those curtains would be my biggest nightmare ... Even the brick wall between rooms in our house let's in way too much noise from the other rooms.

[@edw9623]

Yeah imagine you go away for the weekend with family and friends and that one person who snores in the group ruins it for everyone else! 😆

[@bbbybch5410]

Love the sustainability series so far!

[@lululand1653]

Truly stunning.

[@northtosouthmedia]

So great!

[@palyii]

Archimarathon!

[@oliverlondon5246]

I love everything about this house. Probably one of the nicest houses I’ve seen. I’d move right in (ideally with the architect 🤭)

[@viviayim1695]

Beautiful!

[@ximonwhhatt3796]

HELL YES! More Sustainable architectural designs! OHMYGOD that cabin is absolutely beaut! I FREAKN LOVE THIS SUSTAINABLE SERIES!!! The word "Sustainable" is an extremely valuable keyword for seo and i'm glad videos like this is withholding such value. (Now I just want to see an "affordable" and "sustainable" architectural build.)

[@reneesmith695]

Beautiful!❤️

[@claudiaperalta9494]

Me encantó!!! Seco! Felicitaciones👊🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌷

[@Linda-ot3pj]

Very interesting design.

[@darksideofthesun7157]

Beautiful.

[@SM-yy2vg]

Really beautiful ❤

[@tele68]

It would be nice if these videos included a cost estimate for the project shown.

[@trisab2651]

Love the sustainable séries 🙏😍

[@mauriciotejera2443]

Alucinante

[@sutats]

Lovely beach home, must be good for sacrificial rituals too.

[@kmaguire7161]

My favorite thing about this is how dirty the windows are. I live in a house near the beach and I've given up on cleaning the windows. Would need to pay someone to come every other week to keep them clean.

[@keithss67]

Not sure how much privacy one is going to get with curtains. Very cool space though 👍

[@research1747]

Beautiful Structure - all the pieces could be built off site !

[@tubulartuber]

what's the embodied carbon of all those burly steel connections compared to how much was sequestered by choosing to go with all those glulams?

[@vplph]

Great design... Keeping that spot unaltered would have been sustainable.

[@thekitchenincblog]

Would love to know where those green hanging lights are from. Any ideas?

[@nsn5564]

Beautiful structure, nightmare to clean, I imagine? How do you reach those tall windows?

[@bahamut149]

I'm here for the parti.

[@blankroyai]

Is there no mosquitoes there? Beautiful architecture tho

[@mtljin]

I would need sound proof walls in the bedrooms thanks.

[@himynameis3102]

Same. I like the curtains but would have preferred slide walls instead

[@user-yo2pj6yp9y]

❤️！

[@thestreets2954]

How often do rain fall in that area?

[@flyingaviator8158]

VERY INTERESTING what he is saying ath the beginning: Let in the Sun in the winter and block it in the summer. HOW DO YOU DO THAT? I am really interested in that fundamental detail.

[@mur.e]

I imagine he’s referring to the project’s orientation. They’re south of the equator so the majority of the glazing is oriented north to let sunlight/solar radiation in year round. In winter the sun is lower in the sky so it’s able to heat the space directly through the glazing. Likewise, in summer the sun is higher in the sky so the little horizontal awnings above the glazing block the sun’s radiation, limiting heat gain in the space.

[@Zhijinglim]

damn son

[@mark222b]

Dude just walks out barefoot on gravel/dg.

[@BE-bs8oe]

A very pretty dustbowl indeed. Is very expensive exclusive sustainable architecture in such holy preserved land still ecofriendly?

[@mathewhills8807]

Its a pity that the outside isn't actual round. Its not that hard to make true curved external walls Another small whinge is that the use of galvanized stdel plate and bolts. Could of used stainless steel or powder coating

[@SGspecial84]

Not very homey, but a cool design no less.

[@pyeitme508]

RAD

[@Oshaoxin]

Points for exterior, engineering and green innovation, but the interior is too workshop for me.

[@paulo7200]

Lovely house but the greenwashing is a bit over the top. Yes, timber sequests carbon when its a living tree, but that process stops when its cut into lumber.

[@vivalaleta]

At a time when so many people can't buy one house I have no time for people that have two - even sustainable. There was nothing there before? We are not the only species.

[@ItsMe-yv9jd]

?? Why not use the roof as an outdoor lounge/terrace... a tragic waste of an opportunity to exploit the stunning views.

[@hanktrill1498]

Sustainable luxury second home lmao

[@andrew4809]

Oh dear a modern Abo hut

[@philleach6271]

Hmmm sustainable?? Let’s assume that building cost 3 million (guess) that’s 5 million the client had to earn before paying taxes approximately Let’s assume the client has a business that makes widgets and makes 10 % profit after all expenses. That’s 50 million $ worth of widgets that had to be manufactured to pay for this building. Sure I’m a hypocrite as we all do this but to label a building like this sustainable?? Might be a stretch. Ps great looking building and congratulations to the contractor!

[@L0U1SE]

Pretty but spiral stairs are a pain to live with

[@ondrejroberto2896]

I like the structural circular ring, they could have extend this idea to get rid off every second post in the middle good film to an extent the amount of "sustainability" fake narratives packed here was overwhelming and unnecessary

[@gwendolyn7462]

are you a doctor? or hosptal worker: NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I do not accept curtains for rooms

[@kelleyfisher6932]

It’s beautiful but sustainable? Nah. Huge carbon footprint to put this house out in the middle of nowhere. Prepping the site resulted in a huge carbon footprint. Moving all the materials out there-huge carbon footprint. Driving to a from that home-huge carbon footprint. Sustainable is high density. This is just a giant virtue signal for some rich person that tells everyone they are green…and rich.

[@joeshoe6184]

I'm sure that was a very beautiful setting before they built the house. Any man made structure compromises the beauty of any naturally beautiful place. Beaches are for beauty, not houses. We are running out of beautiful places, those that remain should be preserved, not turned into vacation homes for rich people. There is no such things as a sustainable beach house.

[@joeg9478]

Curtains as walls?? Ummm no. Ruined the whole house.

[@moscowcowboy_13]

why are you wearing womens capri pants?

[@rustyshackle917]

This guy keeps using the word, "sustainable". I do not think he knows what that word means.

[@pinealism]

Beautiful and well designed but agonisingly pretentious. Still so much metal, concrete, and rare earth minerals. This is wealthy green fashioning. For starters you can look at Japanese building techniques where not a single metal nail or screw is used for the framing, then look at adobe for the concrete substitute, then recycled windows, recycled roofing and so on. A multi million dollar home for someone to live full time? Or just for Holliday's? So two homes? And how do they make their money? Carbon based nonsense

[@BaronVonSTFU]

You know what isn't sustainable? People owning multiple houses. It doesn't matter how green it is. Overconsumption is overconsumption. If these people really wanted to help the planet, they'd help poor people rebuild their pre-existing houses to be more efficient. This shit is just a beautiful distraction

[@AvengedAggressively]

Plot Kyle's father, Gerald, buys a new hybrid Toyonda Pious, and drives around showing it off to everyone; he then begins an unwelcome campaign to convert the other townspeople to environmentally-friendly vehicles. He has started to annoy his friend Randy, who complains that Gerald now talks with his eyes closed and that he almost likes the smell of his own farts. Deciding that they cannot live among such backward attitudes, Gerald decides that the family must move to San Francisco. Stan is horrified that Kyle is leaving, though Cartman is completely ecstatic, throwing a going away party for Kyle and not inviting him. Gerald tells him that the family will not return to South Park until everyone feels the same way as him about the environment. After they leave, Stan writes a song about the importance of hybrid cars, which gets on the radio and, incredibly, causes everyone to drive hybrids (and act as smugly as Gerald about it). Stan is praised for opening everyone's eyes, then meets Ranger McFriendly, protector of the environment, who criticizes and punches Stan in the face for what he has done; for, although smog rates are down, people who drive hybrids create a toxic gas in the air called "smug". South Park now has the second-highest levels in the country, after San Francisco. In San Francisco, Kyle's father is glad to meet like-minded "progressive" people, who, mid-conversation, loudly fart, bend over and sniff with pleasure, then resume discussing their philosophies. Kyle finds it difficult to fit in with the other kids, who spend their time taking drugs to deal with their parents' "smugginess". Kyle refuses the offer of acid, but after seeing that his dad is even more arrogant than before (sniffing his own fart), Kyle asks for "maybe just half a hit," while Ike asks for three.

[@VonGreen]

Looks too cluttered and brutalistic for a such a small space...

[@johnfarrell2484]

put those grippers away

[@georgespies8811]

It's not sustainable if you have to drive there.

[@7u655]

I really dont feel i got the fullness of the cabin because of the poor video editing.😢

[@haret0n]

good looking but somewhat silly man designs ugly round house for family who already have a house. then they try to tell everyone about it.

[@haze6277]

im traditional owner of the earth, bow to me

[@darkspeed62]

Not a big fan of all those exposed bolts and unpainted metal. This seems a bit too bland for such a beautiful spot.

[@rodrigogalliano4609]

Gorgeous