Friday, February 17, 2012
Tranmere Residence
Five existing significant Eucalypts encircle the perimeter of this corner property, providing a strong structure and boundary definition to the site.
Working with the closely with the client, WAX has designed a low impact mass planted garden that creates a green carpet of vegetation, with the existing trees providing an architecture to balance the two storey building facade.
A sense of arrival was created with an exposed aggregate entrance path, with slate banding to compliment the feature stone surrounding the front door. A meandering compacted quarry rubble path provides an organic intervention through the garden and a permable surface, sympathetic to the trees root structure.