Beaumaris VIC 3193, Australia · 2026
A Study In Continuity
The Project
There are landscapes that are constructed, and there are landscapes that are composed. This Beaumaris residence belongs to the latter.
Conceived as a continuous dialogue between architecture, landscape, material and light, the project was governed by one principle: nothing should feel interrupted. Every threshold, level change, material junction and transition from built form to planting was considered as part of one composition. The result is not a garden surrounding a house, but an extension of the architecture itself — hardscape becomes softscape, structure becomes sculpture, and movement through the property becomes an experience of rhythm, proportion and discovery.
- Location
- Beaumaris VIC 3193, Australia
- Year / Status
- 2026
- Project type
- Private Residence · Landscape Architecture · Construction
Concept
30mm tumbled travertine crazy paving forms the principal ground plane, deliberately irregular yet meticulously composed, with off-white Ardex grout allowing stone and joint to read as one continuous geological surface. Two sequences of floating concrete steps emerge from this plane — one offset and restricted, creating compression; the other given greater freedom, creating release. Together, they turn circulation into architecture.
Materials
30mm tumbled travertine crazy paving · 26t dry-stacked honeycomb granite · Welded Corten steel edging · Floating concrete steps · Pastel composite decking & cedar battens · Strelitzia nicolai, Cyathea & native understorey
