Denison Rivulet

Denison Beach, Tasmania

This is one of three cabins from 2019: short stays for couples near the Douglas River at Denison Beach, inside the Denison Rivulet conservation area, and a built test for a larger accommodation development to come. The clients' whole brief was "no plaster, no plastic, no paint".

The design leans on the timber shack tradition of Tasmania's coastal towns: Victorian ash lines every wall, stair and piece of joinery inside, the Tasmanian oak cladding outside is oiled black and silver-grey, and brass sheet alternates between kitchen splashback and bathroom lining from cabin to cabin.

Taylor + Hinds Architects

Taylor + Hinds Architects is a Tasmanian practice formed by Poppy Taylor and Mat Hinds in 2013. Hinds's account of these cabins starts with the coastal shack: "Integral to the Tasmanian tradition of shack spaces is a looseness, but a high degree of purposefulness."

taylorandhinds.com.au · Instagram

Architecture Taylor and Hinds Architects (@taylorandhindsarchitects). Photography Adam Gibson (@adam.gibson.photo). Builder AJR Construct (@ajrconstruct). Engineer Aldanmark Consulting. Seen via @micro.homes.

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Researched September 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.