Native Dog Cabin is a project designed by Chindarsi Architects. The site sits on a spur of land jutting out into the Southern Ocean between Bremer Bay and Dillon Bay. Enjoying ocean views to the east, south and west, it is surrounded by beaches and wild places. The peninsula was subdivided into large acreage lots in the early 1990?s and sold for residential development with restrictions on land clearing only to within small building envelopes to preserve the coastal landscape. Undeveloped, the site was purchased by the current owners some thirty years later. Photography by Photographica.

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The landscape is wild and has a muscular, visceral quality. The home needed to maximise the view and its connection within the monumental landscape setting. This logically resulted in a long-house plan where each and every room gets a view out towards Dillon Bay.
Using an approach often seen in early farms and settlements, small simple buildings are grouped together with additional buildings added organically over time. The starting point was a simple gable form for the accommodation, a separate flat-roofed pavilion for the carport and storage, and a large water tank. Corrugated steel forms both walls and roofs and provides a singular reading of the primitive cabin form, with Colorbond Woodland Grey chosen to visually recede within the bushland setting.

The form and materiality of the home references the former Bremer Bay Telegraph Station (George Temple-Poole, 1896...