2017 Gallery
Winner: Garden or Landscape
Anthony Gill Architects with Budwise Garden Design for Waterloo House
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Essential to the experience of this project is the series of courtyards and gardens layered through the site. Used to filter and protect, these gardens provide relief and a sense of privacy in a dense urban setting. The gardens are intended to grow up and over the house, absorbing it.
Jury Citation
In this modest but ambitious project, the architect has used a light touch to maintain and enhance a house already well loved by its owners. A series of courtyard gardens is integral to and indivisible from the interior, with each room in the house opening to or overlooking a densely planted external space.
Lightweight pergolas provide shade and privacy from overlooking to the rear courtyard, while the hit-and- miss recycled brick screen wall around the first-floor bathroom courtyard provides privacy, shade, cooling and outlook. The re-use of salvaged bricks from the demolition of the original rear wing, for both paving and new walls, provides a robust and maintenance-free structure intended to be completely absorbed by the lush and dense planting over time.
This project demonstrates minimal intervention for maximum outcome. It is a delightful and sustainable outdoor space achieved with an economy of means, and it provides a perceived distancing from its neighbours that is rare in such a high-density inner-city location.
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