{"id":439886,"date":"2026-02-22T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439886\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:37:10","slug":"tristan-burfield-creates-bushfire-resilient-annexe-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439886\/","title":{"rendered":"Tristan Burfield creates bushfire-resilient annexe in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Architect Tristan Burfield used a palette of galvanised steel<\/a> and Blackbutt timber to meet bushfire regulations at No. 23, a small annexe he has added to a holiday home<\/a> in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Located close to Eagle Rock on Victoria’s southern coast, the annexe provides additional sleeping areas for a larger holiday home on the site, which is set among bushland, surf beaches and limestone cliffs.<\/p>\n

Burfield<\/a> used what he termed an “agricultural” palette of timber and galvanised steel for the design, leaning into the area’s mandatory bushfire design requirements rather than viewing them as an obstacle.<\/p>\n

\"No.Tristan Burfield has created a bushfire-resilient annexe in Victoria<\/p>\n

“I rather enjoy taking seemingly boring or prescriptive building conventions or codes and trying to find the little moment to lever them just enough to be something special,” Burfield told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“I think of it as a sort of craft of composition. The fun in this project became those subtle pairings of ultimately quite agricultural materials and detailing solutions into a composition of little architectural moments, just enough to be quietly enjoyed,” he added.<\/p>\n

No. 23 has a simple L-shaped plan organised around a paved garden, overlooked by an ensuite bedroom and bunk room through tall windows set within skinny timber frames. These are made from Blackbutt timber, a type of Australian hardwood with natural fire resistance.<\/p>\n

\"AnnexeIt was created for a coastal holiday home in Australia<\/p>\n

Above these frames are panels of galvanised steel, which extend into a shallow canopy punctured by circular openings for rain chains that will gradually be covered by climbing plants.<\/p>\n

Matching galvanised steel was used to frame both the openable windows and doors of the annexe, which match the tall, skinny proportions of the windows.<\/p>\n

\"No.Burfield used hardwood timber throughout the project<\/p>\n

Inside, timber planks line the walls of No. 23, while the metalwork of the exterior is carried through into the bathrooms in a raw steel “trough” sink.<\/p>\n

The main bedroom is organised around a freestanding log burner and alongside the bunk room is an additional bathroom.<\/p>\n

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“Lifting the bottom edge of any external window glazing away from the external floor surface is a direct requirement within that standard that is often the bane of many architects lives,” Burfield explained.<\/p>\n

“In this case, the decision to continue the window frames down to ground and substitute the lower-level glazing with timber cladding and steel at the doors respectively resulted in a lovely little moment inside and out that would otherwise not have been explored,” he added.<\/p>\n

“The steel originally came into the palette due to the owner’s frustration with a previous external timber door that had sagged.”<\/p>\n

\"SteelSteel details also feature across the building<\/p>\n

Other homes in Australia that have made a feature of the need for bushfire-resilient materials include Ironbark House by Klaus Carson Studio,<\/a> which is clad in panels of corrugated steel, and Mt Coot-Tha House by Nielsen Jenkins, which has high blockwork walls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Tasha Tylee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Architect Tristan Burfield used a palette of galvanised steel and Blackbutt timber to meet bushfire regulations at No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,428,1120,96,47502,52411,11127,40339,40340,2696,56,54,55,5536,43430],"class_list":{"0":"post-439886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-extensions","15":"tag-holiday-homes","16":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","17":"tag-sectionall","18":"tag-sectionarchitecture","19":"tag-steel","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-unitedkingdom","23":"tag-victoria","24":"tag-wooden-architecture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}