Triptych comprises 3 major works in one location. The Main House, or Blunt House, The Pulmonum, and The Glass House. Each work responds to its specific location and its relationship to the whole architectural choreography.
Seen from afar, the pavilion reads as two parallel lines set against the gently undulating landscape. It is a defined architectural object that makes no pretensions to naturalness – but its every design gesture is imminently decipherable and logical, grounded in and given meaning by the experience it seeks to create.
GASP stage two is the penultimate gesture of the Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park (GASP!) . It is composed of architecture that responds to the scale of the surrounding landform. Blunt forms frame and command the superlative Tasmanian landscape. Colour and architecture have been used as a vehicle for re-evaluation and re-appreciation of place. The re-forming of the shoreline embraces the expanse of Elwick Bay, the bay becomes integral to the experience, a unity has been created.
Highly considered from every angle and meticulously detailed throughout, St David aims to set a new standard in medium density living in Tasmania. It will be a building of outstanding architectural merit. Robust, earthy materials such as brass piping, folded metal staircases and off-form concrete will combine to create a finely crafted material palette and an overall building of a quality rarely seen. Finessed and precisely detailed, these characteristics will carry through to the interiors to create genuinely noteworthy homes.
The experience of the coastal landscape on the site is one of layers; water, sand flat, grasses, tea tree and finally Coastal Eucalyptus forest. The buildings are placed as additional layers, they are transparent where needed and solid when required for refuge.
The River Derwent has a difficult history. Heavy Metals were routinely dumped until relatively recently.
This has had people outraged for some time. MONA has made a commitment to doing something about it.
Room11 Architects have been commissioned to create submerged architecture which brings the state of the Derwent to collective attention.
Haptic experience and technical data will be deployed in the battle for hearts and minds – raising awareness regarding an important environmental initiative.
The forthcoming GASP! Project is Room 11’s first foray into public architecture. Along the River Derwent in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Room 11 has built a colourfully calibrated public walkway which deftly links previously marginalised, but surprisingly beautiful sections of foreshore.
As the name implies, this house is a celebration of a particular climate: the glorious deluge of rainfall that one of the cleanest places on the planet can be subject. As the courtyard becomes the catalyst for the overall design, it is also a place in which the residents can find solace, and a space where the outside and the inside co-exist in harmony.
On Bruny Island we have created understandable forms that do not mimic context, rather they create an intelligible form from which we can comprehend the nature of place.
