COTTONWOOD
By Barber Design
Location: Old Cottontree Road, Mornington Peninsula
Client: Private
Scope: Landscape and Pool Design
Architect: Abe McCarthy Architects
Lead Contractor: Gstruct
Completed: 2019
In a collaboration spanning over two years, we worked closely with the owners and Abe McCarthy Architects to ensure the property was gifted a strong identity while providing pause and space to the adjoining the dwelling. At the same time, we wanted to anchor the built environment into the wider landscape and natural environment by carefully shaping and proportioning extensive earth mounds and planting.
Our approach provides a journey into the site, revealing the building and creating moments that highlight the architecture. Soft lines and fluid curves combined with our mass-planted mounds deliver an extensive landscape that breathes with the wind, seamlessly connects with the building, and harmoniously transitions to the natural landscape. For this project, we delivered the landscape master planning, detailing and pool design and continue to work with the owners as the site matures.
Old Cottontree Road has been featured extensively in
the Australian design media including features in Belle Magazine and The Local Project.
Photography: Shannon McGrath
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Barber is a Melbourne-based Landscape Architecture Practice. Founded in 2002 by Sam Barber, the studio is renowned for its thoughtful, gentle and pragmatic approach to landscape design.
Refined yet congenial, Sam and his multi-disciplinary team connect clients and the architecture they inhabit to the natural world through crafted experiences grounded in wellbeing, balance and ease.
Barber’s spaces are characterised by a commitment to provenance, proportion and cohesion, where architecture and landscaping are a seamless and symbiotic expression. By listening and learning deeply, to both the site and the client, Barber creates intuitive and connective spaces, that balance rigour with joy and evolve naturally rather than forcefully.
Barber works with both private clients and architects and is well-versed in large, multi-residential and public realm projects, as well as private residences large and small.
We see every project as an opportunity to contribute positively and generously to our client’s way of life.
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