BURST*003 • North Haven, Australia • Completed 2006 • 1500 Square Feet • Jeremy Edmiston / Douglas Gauthier • Sarkis Arakelyan, Amber Moon, Ayat Fadaifard, Sara Goldsmith, Henry Grosman, Kobi Jakov, Joseph Jelinek, Ginny Hyo-jin Kang, Gen Kato, Ioanna Karagiannakou, Yarek Karawczyk, Tony Su. David Arnott, Andrew Cavill, Justice Chengeta, Louisa Gee, Ned Haughton, Simon Hayward, John Jones, Jonathon Mentink, Shaun Purcell, Jo Redden, Justin Spraull, Ksenia Totoeva • Buro Happold, Consulting Engineers: Craig Schwitter, Cristobal Correa, Byron Stigge • Robin Edmiston and Associates. Chris Knapp, Project Architect. Peter Marcus, Engineers • Floto & Warner, Photography; P. C. Steck, Inc.; Grifco International; Gunnersen Plywood Supply; STRING Nesting Solutions, Italy • Digital Fabrication: Architectural and Material Techniques; Bauwelt; Plenty; Abitare N.468; P.S.1 Newspaper, YAP; FutureWood; Metropolis; Pasajes Construcción; Architecture Now; Architecture Australia; Time Magazine; Praxis 7; projekt 04/04; The HOMEhouse Project; Forum Architektury; Praxis; 306090; Versioning: AD • 2006 RAIA Wilkison Award; 2003 BofA Design Award, SECCA Home House Project Competition BURST*003 was the first full-scale house built
from
the
BURST*
prefabricated
method of building. The house sits on a narrow lot of 7,800 sq ft, three hours north of Sydney and five minutes from the ocean. The house has three bedrooms, two
bathrooms,
covered
parking
for
two cars, an informal public space for living/dining/kitchen/play area, grass fields for cricket and bocce ball, and a clay half-court for basketball. The climate in North Haven is temporal coastal
and
the
house
strategically
uses this climate to passively control the
temperature
in
the
house
year-
round. There are no artificial heating or cooling systems. In the summer, the high and strong northern sun is blocked by the angles of the roof overhangs and the window slits. Cooling breezes from the water arrive from the northeast and
are
re-circulated
configuration
of
vents,
through
the
windows,
and
slits in the house. In the winter, the low angle of the sun streams inside and serves to warm the house.