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Courtyard Relief – Homebush House by Wolveridge Architects
As a robust and adaptive home, Homebush House is a nod to its young family and their engagement with the surrounds. Wolveridge Architects creates moments of intimacy through the curation of outdoor courtyard spaces, balancing a reinforced connection with the landscape.
Imagined as a low maintenance and resilient home, Homebush House responds to the surrounding and harsh landscape by conjuring a building of unwavering strength. Although modest in its scale and single-storey configuration, the home sits anchored in place, seeing warm materiality create a feeling of connection to the outdoors and darker elements become encasing. In preparing the ideal residence for the growing family of five, the home needed to connect to the surrounding landscape with a sense of purpose. Wolveridge Architects focuses on warmth as an equaliser to the harder elements and finishes on site.
Grounded through its materiality and consistent interconnection between landscape and built form, Homebush House becomes an immersive experience, with native plantings acting as a connection to place. The protective outer shell of the home, in its crisp and linear fashion, creates a buffer to the streetscape, immersing the occupants in a sanctuary-like atmosphere. Through an embedded strength in select finishes, the home becomes a comfortable and encouraging residence.
From multiple outlooks within, natural settings have been considered to ensure a sense of calm is created in the journey through the home. Changing in response to the seasons throughout the year, the garden plays a vital role. All comprising elements have been selected due to their appropriateness to place – for instance, allowing the blackbutt timber to silver over time – whilst the orientation has been optimised to create year-round comfort.
