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Images- Northern Suburbs Sydney Studio |
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architect |
Undercurrent Architects. www.undercurrent-architects.com |
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Sydney |
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date |
2007 |
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style |
Late 20th-Century Structuralist "The building responds to the landscape using an architectural language of cloud, rain, tree, leaf, branch and fire and defines an ethereal and heavenly space used as a garden studio." |
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construction |
computer designed steel tree frame, 3d curved glass, corrugated copper roof. |
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type |
Private artist's studio, pavilion. |
| photos : hugh rutherford www.fixedfocus.net | |
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Sydney Studio The building is a diffuse shelter that responds to the raw qualities of the Australian landscape. The typology is in the experimental tradition of the garden pavilion while relating to the functional and laid back line of the garden studio, which complements an existing family home. Located on a hill facing the ocean and sun in a coastal bush area of Sydney, it is used as a home office, art studio, meditation space, yoga room and guest area. Architecture follows a landscaping logic: a canopy roof with open, public areas forming part of the garden and a podium level of enclosed private spaces shaping the terrain. The roof is layered and permeable, reflecting the surrounding foliage and filtering light and views for the interior. Supporting the roof is an organic branchy structure, a system of undulating beams and pillars which bring the dynamic and wild character of the bush inside. Walls for the upper level are made out of smooth, double curved, transparent glass like a seamless undulating fabric, diffusing the boundary between in and outside and blending the interior with the garden. The lower level, private rooms are excavated into the bedrock, forming a thick inhabited retaining wall that integrates with the existing sandstone terracing and shapes the terrain of the garden. The project was conceived through poetic imagery of the site and surrounding Nature. These images evolved into a language of visual icons: earth; fire; rain; clouds; trees; leaves; branches; flows; streams… Expressed over the structure, these icons gave shape to the building. Like three-dimensional calligraphy brushed in space, a form condensed which incorporated the aroma of different moments in time, vaguely permeating a haiku poem: Tree rising from the earth; burst of flames; cloud, rain falling…  Finding balance between randomness and control in construction, the original freshness was retained, bringing irregularity and diversity from every point of view. As a result, the building evokes a subtle compound of sensations and perceptions, with light, forms, shades, resonances and reflections, reacting with the environment and unfolding over time. |
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links |
www.undercurrent-architects.com |