First Creek House, SA, 2020
A home for a timber merchant. A home for an active family, with 2 teenage boys (+friends) wholove entertaining/sport/music/art. A home for being together in, for being apart in. Spaces that join, that separate, at will. A home of destinations, inside and out. A home that wraps its site, that opens to the long view. A landscaped court as ‘hearth’, changing with the seasons, always accompanying.
A site drastically confined by flood-line, bounded by a busy road and a north-neighbouring 4m-high hedge. This is a house that must step carefully. Its forms rise/twist/ peel to find northernlight, whilst also rising and opening to the wonderfully tall treetops creekside; then sit low for northern-sun to the central court. Materials are earth/timber/rust, acknowledging the creekside location, and its sense of ‘bush’ in the inner suburbs.
Designing never stopped. Always reviewing what we had, through-to-occupancy, to get to best fit best result.
Awards:
AIA (SA) Award for Residential Architecture - Houses (New), 2021