No.23 Residence
Aireys Inlet, Victoria
A four-room sleeping cabin of 2025 built behind an existing beach house at Aireys Inlet on the Great Ocean Road: an L of rooms around a courtyard, with no corridors at all. There is a bedroom with ensuite, a bunkroom entered from outside or through a sliding door from the bedroom, and a second bathroom reached only by stepping out. Bushfire rules shaped the look, a working palette of blackbutt and galvanised steel used with the regulations rather than against them, and the tall steel-framed door in this picture carries solid panels at its base because the standard keeps glass off the ground.
Over the courtyard's crazy paving hangs an awning of folded sheet metal, thin as paper, with circular openings for rain chains and two more chains draped as scaffolds for creepers to climb. The architect names every project after its street number, so No. 23 joins a works list of No. 5, No. 14 and No. 66. It was built by Great Ocean Road Builders and photographed by Tasha Tylee.
Tristan Burfield
A sole practitioner in Elwood, Melbourne, RMIT trained and registered in three states, running his own practice since 2019 with no staff and nothing outsourced: each project is carried alone from first meeting to handover, physical models included.
Architecture Tristan Burfield (@tristandburfield). Photography Tasha Tylee (@tashatylee). Built by @greatoceanroadbuilders. Landscape architecture @sarahperrygardendesign. Story @nyoahrosmarin. Seen via @housesmagazine.
The picture comes from this post on Instagram, with more in a second post.
Researched August 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.