Grove Garden

A playful family home, breathing from the inside. This family home garden was developed in collaboration with Dan Young Landscape Architect. Designed by Dan Young, the central courtyard is a breathing core of layered subtropical greenery. It was carefully moulded to be experienced from different perspectives - from the upper levels, filtered views through the canopies of a grove of tree ferns; from the ground level, they can be traversed over rolling mounds of greenery. The backyard, designed by Green Care Project, is a family-centred productive meadow, inviting inhabitants to play, lounge, and grow food. In this process, we explored ways to close the loop with construction materials and reduce waste. We repurposed defective concrete stormwater pipes from a local civil infrastructure supplier as raised food garden beds, which also doubled as retaining for the rolling lawn.