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House: The Green Cage
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The Green Cage 2011The
design intent was to look at an residential and pottery / art studio
insertion to a bare inner city lot, surrounded by a motley crew of
existing industrial buildings. The concept evolved into designing an
oasis, abundant with nature within such a concrete and brick clad
environ for the interface of Architecture to the intimacy of a garden.
The concept of the Green Cage is a contained ideal of the greening of
one’s own backyard. In-short, a blurring of the boundary between the
landscape and building through a sharing of space. No thought exists of a
secreted walled garden but reversed with the garden forming the walls
and secreting the house and studio. The Green Cage has been designed for
what will over-grow it. Designed to sit proudly; upright within
furrowed earthen mounds covered in creeping ivy; undulating like frozen
emerald waves and amongst the sudden splash of exploding tall native
grasses. The Green cage is designed for the past, now and the future.
Purposed as a functioning house and studio, existing as a part of the
fabric of urban Melbourne and yet alien, existing as both a familiar and
yet an unfamiliar edifice.
Three parts, three functions, serving as one entity. The greening of
the physical and mental scape: The Green Cage. “Most people would look
at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free
– It’s a dangerous world out there, filled with predators – What would
you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an
uncertain life of freedom.” – Going Out, written by Scarlett Thomas,
2004.
Awards:
2012-2013 A’ Design Award – A’ Architecture, Building and Urban Design Award
2011 AAA Cavalier Bremworth Design Awards – ‘Open Conceptual’ Runner Up
Cav Brem Judges’ citation: Beautifully evocative project with a
balance of delicacy and robustness. A place that is haunting and
imagines a different potential for an abandoned space. Demonstrates a
collection of highly liveable spaces in an otherwise tough and unused
environment.
Judges: Kerry Hill from Kerry Hill Architects in Singapore;
Andrew Patterson of Patterson Associates (NZ) and Nat Cheshire from
Cheshire Architects (NZ).
design intent was to look at an residential and pottery / art studio
insertion to a bare inner city lot, surrounded by a motley crew of
existing industrial buildings. The concept evolved into designing an
oasis, abundant with nature within such a concrete and brick clad
environ for the interface of Architecture to the intimacy of a garden.
The concept of the Green Cage is a contained ideal of the greening of
one’s own backyard. In-short, a blurring of the boundary between the
landscape and building through a sharing of space. No thought exists of a
secreted walled garden but reversed with the garden forming the walls
and secreting the house and studio. The Green Cage has been designed for
what will over-grow it. Designed to sit proudly; upright within
furrowed earthen mounds covered in creeping ivy; undulating like frozen
emerald waves and amongst the sudden splash of exploding tall native
grasses. The Green cage is designed for the past, now and the future.
Purposed as a functioning house and studio, existing as a part of the
fabric of urban Melbourne and yet alien, existing as both a familiar and
yet an unfamiliar edifice.
Three parts, three functions, serving as one entity. The greening of
the physical and mental scape: The Green Cage. “Most people would look
at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free
– It’s a dangerous world out there, filled with predators – What would
you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an
uncertain life of freedom.” – Going Out, written by Scarlett Thomas,
2004.
Awards:
2012-2013 A’ Design Award – A’ Architecture, Building and Urban Design Award
2011 AAA Cavalier Bremworth Design Awards – ‘Open Conceptual’ Runner Up
Cav Brem Judges’ citation: Beautifully evocative project with a
balance of delicacy and robustness. A place that is haunting and
imagines a different potential for an abandoned space. Demonstrates a
collection of highly liveable spaces in an otherwise tough and unused
environment.
Judges: Kerry Hill from Kerry Hill Architects in Singapore;
Andrew Patterson of Patterson Associates (NZ) and Nat Cheshire from
Cheshire Architects (NZ).
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