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Castle Cove
This private residence on Sydney Harbour shows what sustainable, modern design can bring to a family home.
The design focuses on solar access and on opening up the site's view corridors, connecting the house to the water and bushland around it. Living spaces sit under deep concrete overhangs that shade the glass, terraced gardens step down the slope to a pool, and natural stone appears throughout, from the hand-split kitchen island to a sculptural freestanding bath. The aim is a beautiful home that has a positive effect on the people who live in it and on its environment.
A sloping harbourside site where sun, views and landscape all pull in different directions, and the house has to step with the land.
What are you
thinking about?
Start with the site and how you want to live.
What needs
to go right?
Cost belongs in the design conversation from the beginning.
What needs
resolving?
No polished brief required. One honest question will do.
What's
your style?
A reference is enough. There is no right answer.
Start with
one question.
Tell me what you are considering, what matters and where you need clarity.
I read these myself. You will be speaking with me, not a mysterious enquiry department.
Design &
construction
should speak.
Arkhaus is a residential design studio where ideas and making are considered as one. Beautiful homes should be as resolved in thought as they are in execution.
"A strong idea should survive the way it is built"
Experience
changes the
way you see.
Led by Fernando Banales, Arkhaus draws on 24 years in architecture and construction. Trained in architecture. Registered builder. Designer by instinct.
Our practice & projects are supported by NOX, a project management platform designed to streamline communication, coordinate decisions and maintain visibility across every stage of the process.
"Knowing how things are made changes how you design them"
The site
knows.
Every home starts with what is already there. Light. Aspect. Landscape. Privacy. Material. The way you want to live.
We listen before we draw.
Beautiful.
Logical.
Built.
Good residential design is often an exercise in restraint. Fewer gestures. Better proportions. Materials with purpose. Details that feel inevitable.
Design first. Site led. Beautifully resolved.