Positioned at the southern edge of the Mornington Peninsula, where the land yields to Bass Strait, the house inhabits a landscape of remarkable intensity. Wind arrives unbroken from the Southern Ocean, rain travels across the horizon, and the air is saturated with salt. The architecture does not resist these forces. Instead, it settles quietly into them, becoming part of the character of the place.

A long east-to-west wing contains the private spaces, while a glazed living pavilion extends northward. They meet as three shelters surrounding a central light court and garden. On gentle days, operable walls slide away and the boundaries between house and garden dissolve. When the coast reveals its harsher moods, the pavilion becomes a place of warmth, enclosure and quiet observation, with the opportunity to shift attention away from a swirling wind.

The building knows it will age alongside the landscape that shapes it. The rendered exterior weathers gracefully beneath salt air and coastal winds, while stone salvaged from the historic Sorrento Hotel brings a layer of memory and continuity to the entry.

Wildcoast does not seek to occupy the land; it enters into a conversation with it, finding shelter not through separation from nature, but through a deeper connection.

Wildcoast — Portsea, Australia — 2026

Into the Wild.

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