Saffire Freycinet Tasmania
by Tony Smyth, 17 January 2011
From its inception, Saffire Freycinet on Tasmania’s east coast, was imagined as an iconic project to redefine tourism in Tasmania. The original brief was for a much larger development of 150 rooms, but this was rethought by owners The Federal Group and eventually became a far smaller scale, more intimate resort. Saffire now features 20 accommodation suites, each with sweeping views of Great Oyster Bay and the Hazards Mountains (an iconic Tasmanian landscape) and have an organic relationship with the site.
The original project went on hold and eventually the brief was given to a new set of architects, Hobart-based Circa Morris-Nunn Walker architects and the interior design firm Chhada Siembieda Australia who were re-commissioned to design Saffire in its current form. The second brief was for a luxurious but relaxed, coastal property with a focus on local – workmanship, suppliers and craftsmen whenever possible and to accommodate a maximum of 20 couples in private suites that look out over the mountains and the sea.
“Our client was developing the project with other architects,” says Peter Walker, director at Circa architects. “However, when a change of direction for the project was sought we were asked to completely re-design it. We had been working on another hotel project with the client and had formed an excellent working relationship,” he adds.
The location, when Circa inherited it, was scarred from its previous use as a disused caravan park so the project became as much about repairing the site and interpreting its unique qualities as it was about creating a space from which it could be experienced.
The site is located at Coles Bay on the east coast of Tasmania, and overlooks Great Oyster Bay, the Hazards and the Freycinet Peninsula. The Hazards are a unique geological formation of pink granite that give them an orange/pink tint. The project site is located within, what is extensively a natural native costal landscape.
“With this in mind, we shaped the main building as the end point in a journey,” says Walker. “In which views of the Hazards are shielded and revealed and finally presented as a destination which is a panoramic overview of the Hazards and their context.”
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