ECO BEACH HOUSE A BEAUTY

A BOOMERANG shaped house made out of three second-hand shipping containers has hit the market in Wye River.

Ben Edwards from Melbourne’s Studio Edwards designed House 28 at 28 Karingal Drive (pictured) to meet the strict bushfire building code, but to also be sympathetic to the surrounding environment.

Great Ocean Road Real Estate, Lorne agent Michael Coutts said the striking house was “bulletproof”. “In that sort of harsh environment it will be there forever and a day,” Mr Coutts said.

He said the designer and owner, Mr Edwards, was selling to move onto the next project.

The 6m-long containers were ideal to meet the building code but also were in response to the steep block.

Mr Edwards told the Geelong Advertiser earlier this year that the house was clad in steel, which is a noncombustible material, and had a couple of layers of cement sheet and insulation, plus a green roof on the top.

“It’s a spectacular site and location. We tried to make something that’s sympathetic to the surrounds. It’s such a beautiful part of the world,” he said.

Two containers form the living space and the third creates a sleeping wing with two bedrooms, toilet and shower.

An external deck connects the containers on steel stilts, which sit on deep concrete pile foundations that anchor the house to the hillside.

The house was built after the devastating Black Christmas bushfires in 2015 that razed 116 dwellings at Wye River and Separation Creek.

Mr Coutts said he sold 26