Marine Culture
Belle Magazine Australia|December - January 2021
Anchored amid native bush, this exceptional home stands strong on a prize plot of the wild Victorian south coast where frothy breakers roll in below and mesmerising views extend in all directions.
Karen McCartney
Marine Culture

There are three things that preoccupy an architect when they are about to approach a new project: the site, the client brief and the budget. All three have to be held in balance to create the optimum result as is clearly illustrated by this exceptional house by Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors in Aireys Inlet on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road.

For Rob, the site presented a challenge that was emotional as much as practical. “I had holidayed in this area as a child and knew it well, so I was aware of the great privilege of building on this rare block of north-facing land. There are very few plots of this calibre in the world and I had a duty of care,” he says.

A 90-minute drive southwest of Melbourne, Aireys Inlet is a small coastal town set between Anglesea and Lorne with a longstanding surfing culture. There are two significant landmarks which define the coastal experience, one man-made and one natural, which have been respected in the design process: the Split Point Lighthouse built in 1891 and Eagle Rock, a large volcanic stack capped by limestone. The land itself is set within a conservation precinct that borders national parkland and a marine park. Rare indeed.

Rob had also built a holiday house for himself and his family, the Ocean House (which featured in Belle December/January 2011/12), in nearby Lorne, so he knew the terrain and the potential for the clients to experience, as he had done, the magic of living between a forest of tea-trees, eucalypts, banksia and native grasses and the wildness of the ocean.

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