Program:
New Home, Pool, New Gardens, Environmental Systems
Scale:
Floor area 420 sqm
Site area 9150 sqm
Year:
2018
Scope:
Design, Planning, Documentation, Tender and Contract Administration
Photography:
Stephen Nicholls Photography and Jody Darcy
Team:
Ben Mountford, Mark Petley, Carlson Jean Charles, Sarah Henneveld
Consultancy Team:
AJV – Engineers, Realm Studios – Landscape Architects Basics – Approval Services, Cadds – Energy Consultant
Location:
Southwest WA
Builder:
Mosman Bay Constructions
Status:
Complete
The home was commissioned by a florist and an engineer. Sited near bushland on a broad expanse of the Swan River Basin, the design transplants the functional geometry of the European farm quadrangle to the new house while still enjoying its West Australian bush setting. The fourth side of the quadrangle, traditionally a building housing farm machinery, has been replaced instead by a row-planted picking garden designed for the owner by landscape architect Realm Studios.
The house comprises of strong forms hewn from the local limestone. Inside, the inhabitants will enjoy long sight lines and views framed around the 300+ year old paper bark trees. The interior spaces are set up to reflect the play of light and shadow and abstractions of the West Australian bush as the sun’s arc projects them across interior walls.
This home has been thoughtfully designed to provide well considered, well appointed shelter to accommodate the owners’ rural lifestyle.
perth
123 aberdeen street, northbridge
western australia 6003
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sydney
common room, 235-239 commonwealth st, surry hills
nsw 2010
info@marchitects.com.au
+61 8 9227 8664