Palm Beach House
A north-facing coastal garden built to withstand salt wind while framing an unbroken ocean view from the new pavilion.
A north-facing coastal garden built to withstand salt wind while framing an unbroken ocean view from the new pavilion.
The site sits eighty metres above Pittwater on a steep, salt-exposed face. The architectural brief was minimal — a glass pavilion sliding into the dune — and the landscape had to do the heavy lifting of shelter, scale and arrival.
We terraced the upper slope with three loose stone walls, planted exclusively in coastal natives selected for wind resilience and silver-grey foliage, and threaded a single sandstone path from carport to front door. The composition reads as one continuous gesture from the road, but reveals three distinct planted rooms as you descend.
The planting was specified to require almost no irrigation past establishment. Two years on, the spinifex tufts have woven into a continuous mat across the lower slope, and the banksia integrifolia avenue is just beginning to find its mature character.
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