Hawkesbury House: An understated architectural design that harmoniously frames the landscape, featuring a low wall that enhances the distant views of the valley, completed in 2011 by a skilled project team in Sydney, NSW.
An understated architecture to frame the landscape. A low wall between house and pavilion serves to sensor out the middle ground to bring the distant view into the foreground to draw forward the valley.
Project team: Andrew Burns, Casey Bryant, Nath Rankothge
Structural Engineer: Randall Jones and Associates
Photography: Brett Boardman Photography
Location: Sydney, NSW
Year: 2008–2011
Land: Guringai
- Completed
- 2011
The studio's first house, Architecture AND completed a house set high above the Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney.
A series of masonry blades are placed on a site, deflected in response to the bloodwood trees that are distributed across the site. A long retaining wall stretches between house and studio to define an upper lawn, sensoring out the middle-ground to foreground the distant valley. In addition to their spatial function, the walls served to shield glazed surfaces from the radiant heat of possible bushfires.
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