LOCATION: Cape Peron, Western Australia

PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Concept Design & Visuals/Public Infrastructure

This concept design by Mike Edwards Architecture includes two buildings with a covered link, a small cafe to the eastern side with a generous deck and views to Garden Island, a museum space of approx. 250 square metres to the western side also with expansive views to Garden Island. The Museum and Cafe buildings are sited to provide openness and views to the north while creating a protected entrance courtyard space on the south tucked in to the dune vegetation.

The bold concrete construction has a fluid curvilinear form inspired by the round and curved shapes found in many of the coastal defence structures, the arcs and curves of coastal geography found in bays, coves, rocks and erosion.

Inspiration has also been drawn from the softness and shapes of waves, surf, coastal dunes, hills and vegetation.