St Andrews Beach House, Modern beach residence in St Andrews Beach, Victoria, Australia

St Andrews Beach House is a three-bedroom, two-storey house at St Andrews Beach on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, designed by Australian architect Sean Godsell. It is raised to engage views over the ocean, and its form and colour are meant to harmonise with the surrounding landscape. The plan splits into a communal kitchen/meals/living space and a separate bedroom block, linked by a promenade deck of two half-length passages on opposite sides and ends; moving between them takes occupants outside and back in.

Sean Godsell designed the St Andrews Beach House on the Mornington Peninsula, and it won the RAIA Robin Boyd Award for Residential Buildings in 2006. The house also received the Premier's Design Award for the Built Environment in Victoria and an International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum in the USA.

The house is a private residence, not open to visitors, so its cultural interest lies in its plan: a communal kitchen, meals and living space is set apart from a bedroom block, joined by a promenade deck of two half-length passages on opposite sides. Moving between rooms means stepping outside and back in, exposing occupants to summer heat and winter extremes.

The house is a private residence, so it is seen from outside rather than toured. Its two-storey form is raised on the ocean-facing slope at St Andrews Beach, on the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne. The plan splits into a living block and a bedroom block joined by a promenade deck, so moving between rooms means stepping outdoors into summer heat or winter gales.

The house won the RAIA Robin Boyd Award for Residential Buildings in 2006, one of several honours that also include a Detail Award from Detail magazine in Germany and an International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum. The plan splits a kitchen/meals/living space from a bedroom block, joined by a promenade deck of two half-length passages at opposite ends.