Saffire | Peter Walker

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 brief was for a intimate luxury resort, of 20 private suites that was is intended to be a destination in its own right and mainly cater to inbound interstate or international – guests. It will provide for (and possibly create) a new high end tourist market in the state. Also important to the client was that the project had an iconic, highly recognizable form that also related to the natural site. Although the resort is located within what is extensively a natural native costal landscape, the project site was scarred from its previous use as a disused caravan park. 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.