Room11's Tasmanian Vipp Tunnel design offers a 'station of solitude at the edge of the world'
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A new guesthouse design on Tasmanias Bruny Island that balances site context, art, and material is worth noting for its transposition of landscape and cubist formalism.Designed by the Hobart-based firm Room11 Architects, the Vipp Tunnel is an architecturally daring, off-the-grid guesthouse that covers 1,700 square feet and gets its name from the elongated cantilevering concrete volume that joins a separate 375-square-foot cubic studio to offer guests an extra meditative space or office.Photo by Adam GibsonThe latest design in the Danish Vipp brands catalogue of single-room guesthouses, Vipp Tunnel, follows three others completed last year in Denmark, Latvia, and Mexico and is the first Australian location. Room11 director Thomas Bailey says, "It is a place where the cut of contemporary architectural thinking is starkly rendered against a raw natural context."Photo by Adam GibsonThe island property, which is accessible via ferry, comes replete with an outdoor sculptural install...
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