2024 Gallery
Winner: Garden or Landscape
Anthony Gill Architects with Sacha Coles for Redfern House
This project involved the alterations and additions to a terrace in Redfern for a Landscape Architect and his family. Central to the scheme is a generous roof garden - wedged in amongst other roofs, out buildings and garages, it provides enormous relief for the family and their neighbours.
Jury Citation
Redfern House offers a systemic approach to a narrow inner-suburban block, affording the design of house and landscape equal consideration. Its generosity to the street blurs home, garden and street, and its visibility to the wider neighbourhood is an invitation to others to follow a similar path by softening the public–private thresholds of urban living.
Terraces are often typified by a scarcity of garden, but this project makes the most of external spaces, finding many opportunities to support a diverse habitat. A green roof connects to a well-considered shaded garden. Water reuse is considered through passive stormwater reuse, which feeds productive and native plantings.
The project focuses on function and comfort through its subtle and tactile materiality. The imperfect is celebrated, taking visual cues from the urban grain that the garden sits within: poly piping, paving and pebble are nestled among a selection of plant species that celebrate movement, texture and colour – particularly on the green roof.
The landscape design enfolds the existing home and its new addition at the rear of the site in a patchwork of planting, where greenery is not only viewed but also experienced from each opening within the terrace.
It is evident that the garden gives back to the landscape that it sits within. This admirable project offers an inviting landscape system that looks beyond the considerations of human occupation, demonstrates a holistic integration of home and garden, and explores the role every suburban block can play in ensuring the ecological future of our cities.
