takeovertime: Balnarring Retreat | Branch Studio...
Balnarring Retreat | Branch Studio Architects
Standing at the edge of a pond and surrounded by vegetation, the Balnarring Retreat offers its inhabitants a quiet living space away from their urban home. A place for slow living in a gorgeous natural environment. A place where the sun, water, birds, and greenery become a part of the interior.
The modern structure, located in Australia, was ingeniously designed by Branch Studio Architects as a multipurpose retreat/studio. It easily transforms to fulfill the clients’ different requirements through folding furniture, as well as sliding panels and curtains. Thus, “the inhabitant must fold and unfold the various components by hand, mindfully manipulating the very space they inhabit and therefore becoming a part of the space, not the master of it,” say the architects.