A Sunshine Coast home which features a large verandah as its centrepiece won the 2003 Queensland building design award for the most innovative use of steel. Designed by Tim Cronin, the Pelican Waters, Caloundra, home uses a combination of industrial materials juxtaposed with innovative detailing.
An outdoor room cum verandah perched over the kitchen is a focal point of the home. The north east facing skillion roof made from Colorbond steel from BlueScope Steel in the colour ‘Surfmist’ is balanced by steel posts, creating a lean-to effect. The steel-framed cantilevered verandah creates shade in the summer and adds a striking appeal to the home. “When I designed the outdoor verandah it became central to the design - and I realised it would be interesting to incorporate steel in other parts of the house,” Cronin says.
Colorbond was chosen as a building material, says Cronin, because “I needed a material that was strong but lightweight to enable me to come up with interesting design solutions.”
The three bedroom, two bathroom home features pivoting doors in glass, steel and wood. Commercial building materials such as steel and toughened glass are used in combination with traditional residential construction materials to add innovative texture and form.
Source: Building Products News.