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The Studio Ilk-designed Tinderbox House is a hidden sanctuary for a family from Tasmania’s south coast that opts to coexist with its ecosystem as opposed to disrupting it. The clients asked for a calm sanctuary that would allow an escape from professional life. The house was to be used for entertaining, albeit loudly, and was to be imagined in such a way that would allow them to do so at all hours, hence why the children’s rooms are placed in a separate pavilion to the living spaces. Studio Ilk was aware of the site conditions due to coincidentally working with the previous owner. An excavated house with an underground cellar and tunnel to the shoreline below was all that remained. The cellar gave context and location to the build, but the practice was still tasked with how the dwelling would be orientated. The site is a large semi-rural battle-axe block that may be exposed to extreme weather conditions, with complex biodiversity overlays and a rugged cliff-side coastline to the east and south.
