Manly Residence II

Horizon collaborated with architects PopovBass to deliver this five-bedroom home in Manly, Australia.

The project was highly complex as the home occupies the entire compact site, and is situated on a very busy road. To keep public access intact, the builders cantilevered scaffolding over the footpath to create a pedestrian walkway during construction.

The design includes huge glass panels to take advantage of the stunning ocean views. To safely install this glass, Horizon set up a specialised system – craning a smaller crane into the home. External machinery then passed the smaller crane building materials.

The curved, cantilevered, off-form concrete was extremely specialised and demanded the utmost accuracy on the first attempt. The concrete was prototyped to ensure the highest quality of the finished product.

Glass and aluminium sections were ordered from Europe and still didn't hold up a tight handover date.

The project required extremely strong collaboration and communication with the builder, architect and engineer throughout.