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The Walled Garden
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The Walled Garden is a site specific response to Melbourne’s unsustainable, low-density suburban growth. It achieves an appropriate density that exceeds the surrounding quarter-acre sprawl while sustaining the particular poetic qualities of the existing conditions.
The project proposes an innovative programmatic arrangement that combines the cohousing model – the "old-fashioned neighbourhood of the future" – with privately owned or rented apartments ideal for single parents and the elderly, but equally appropriate for families, couples and single people.
The fifteen acre site in Melbourne’s middle ring of suburbs was purchased by the current owners in 1940 when the surrounding landscape was outside metropolitan Melbourne –the bush fringe. In the 1980s, ten acres were donated to the Trust for Nature as an indigenous bushland reserve. The site remained an island of green while a sea of winding cul-de-sacs and brick bungalows grew around it. The remaining five acres are now ideal for higher-density or alternative suburban living models: directly adjacent to the local shopping strip, a major road, and Heathmont railway station.
The cul-de-sac is the outcome of an outmoded idea of domestic space, but it can’t be denied that spatially it offers the potential for a sense of neighbourhood and community. Through clever planning of the apartments and their relationship to one another, the scheme retains the positive social aspects of this cul-de-sac configuration within a compact, contemporary and sustainable (sub)urban planning alternative.
The Garden Wall anchors the architecture irrevocably to its surrounds. It is at once a solidification of the boundary between the indigenous bushland and the domesticated garden; a public attraction incorporating a treetop walk, a bird hide and a bushwalkers’ hut; a ceremonial gateway from inner to outer garden; a series of water tanks; a folly and future ruin.
Layered and overlapping zones of public and private allow residents, the Trust for Nature, and the public to share this unique place.
The project proposes an innovative programmatic arrangement that combines the cohousing model – the "old-fashioned neighbourhood of the future" – with privately owned or rented apartments ideal for single parents and the elderly, but equally appropriate for families, couples and single people.
The fifteen acre site in Melbourne’s middle ring of suburbs was purchased by the current owners in 1940 when the surrounding landscape was outside metropolitan Melbourne –the bush fringe. In the 1980s, ten acres were donated to the Trust for Nature as an indigenous bushland reserve. The site remained an island of green while a sea of winding cul-de-sacs and brick bungalows grew around it. The remaining five acres are now ideal for higher-density or alternative suburban living models: directly adjacent to the local shopping strip, a major road, and Heathmont railway station.
The cul-de-sac is the outcome of an outmoded idea of domestic space, but it can’t be denied that spatially it offers the potential for a sense of neighbourhood and community. Through clever planning of the apartments and their relationship to one another, the scheme retains the positive social aspects of this cul-de-sac configuration within a compact, contemporary and sustainable (sub)urban planning alternative.
The Garden Wall anchors the architecture irrevocably to its surrounds. It is at once a solidification of the boundary between the indigenous bushland and the domesticated garden; a public attraction incorporating a treetop walk, a bird hide and a bushwalkers’ hut; a ceremonial gateway from inner to outer garden; a series of water tanks; a folly and future ruin.
Layered and overlapping zones of public and private allow residents, the Trust for Nature, and the public to share this unique place.
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