Stunning Australian Houses | Cliff House

The Cliff House, by Architects Modscape who appear to have a portfolio of projects on beautiful but remote sites, is probably the most extreme Modular Offsite Construction home that we have encountered. Designed for a client looking to develop the most challenging locations the architects propose the use of prefabrication technologies to deliver a series of stacked housing modules that are anchored into the cliff face using engineered steel pins.

Entry to this home is through a carport on the top floor, where a lift vertically connects the user through each of the descending living spaces. Internally, the living spaces feature minimalistic furnishings to ensure unobstructed views of the ocean and the unique spatial experience of the location remain the integral focal point of the design.

Clearly there would be a real challenge to actually constructing this house in this location, and it would be thoroughly unnerving to actually move through this home suspended from the cliff face, but there are many who delight in these experiences. The quirky nature of this concept is that when approaching from the cliff top the only visible part of the structure would be a very strange and minimal car port at the cliff edge with the views towards the ocean from the cliff-top otherwise undisturbed. We do wonder how the British planning system would embrace this 'visual intrusion' on our coastline?

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