ARTISTS RESIDENCE FACILITY

‘GLENDALE,’ KOSCIOSZKO RD, COOMA/BERRIDALE, NSW





CONCEPTUAL INTENT


unique to this landscape and distinct to the conceptualisation of my architecture, stand large granite tors. in rising faithfully from their underground hiding spots, cracking into shape and harnessing homes in clusters amongst the vast australian bush, they lend themselves to their environment .

benjamin walter states:
“i set myself in the space and the space settles me.”

in seeking to create an architecture of place, i allowed the landscape to guide the evolution of my design, aiming to enhance the experience of the surrounds by capturing and elaborating the existing nuances with particular attention to that of the tors:

form: the tors perceived weight and size document the landscape by offering a gesture of navigation in which the land seems to hang off.

frame: erosion over time has created negative space between the tors. peering through the resulting passages, they create focus and remove context allowing the observer to capture a moment that would otherwise remain unnoticed.

shelter: in clusters the tors act as a refuge, a shelter from the elements, claiming the trees as their own, not only nestling them between their cracks and crevices but on their surface, creating a transient plane between the horizontal ground and their vertical stature where the trees cast their shadows.

hence the resulting architecture aims to offer refuge, aspect and prospect to develop space which contemplates the tors proposed function as well as the need for human scale to be introduced on a site where this can so easily be lost.