The Letterbox House

The Letterbox House by architect McBride Charles Ryan takes in all the organic senses of Blairgowrie Australia, the sun, the sky, the breeze and the sound and smell of the sea like 'a giant multi-sensory organ'. With diligent respect to the scale of the beach, McBride designed this home as a space awaiting a family to fill it with memories: 'The inside of this golden wall is vivid red; the support structure and the support shelves which in time will become deposits of beach memories, the much leafed book, the photos, the bric-a-brac of beach holidays and markers of the quintessential Australian family life - when that happens maybe that will then become ‘my space’ also.'

You really should read the write up offered on Arch Daily. It describes the home in beautiful prose as the home should be described. A phrase I keep coming back to in architecture: “home as one continuous mouldable surface, a relief against which human activity would pop out.” Beautiful.

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