Croft House by James Stockwell

Architect James Stockwell has designed the Croft House near Inverloch, Australia.


From the architect

‘If the elements of rain sun and wind could generate an architecture what would it look like ?’




It reinforces the language of the rural context of corrugated iron and purposefulness and has been widely embraced.



Running costs are minimized by double glazing, isolated thermal mass and passive solar design. The house provides high fire protection.

The form of the house distorts mathematical and structural curves to achieve the form. The adopted geometry and composition of three sine curves means details are achievable with 2 dimensional radii. Both concave and convex roof surfaces are 2 dimensional planes and constructed from conventional battens and rafters and corrugated metal. Softwood scissor trusses were erected in 2 days on ‘in plan’ arch ring beams of laminated timber braced by the remnant buttresses. Laminated timber beams most aptly suited the formation of the sine curve form of the building courtyard shape, the natural curve of material ductility.

Architect: James Stockwell Architect
Photography: James Archibald