An Anchored Realisation – Vigneron House by Enoki and Proske Architects

Anchored to its site, Vigneron House responds to its surrounding vineyard and opens to curated apertures as a reminder of place. Enoki and Proske Architects combine to create a natural and textural response to the Adelaide Hills location, realising the client’s long-held vision for the site.

Elevated and surrounded by the lush natural and cultured landscape of the Adelaide Hills, Vigneron sits long and low, weighted through its comprising parts as it embeds itself in position. Optimising views, a T-shaped plan allows increased visual access to the surrounds throughout the home, alleviating a distinct hierarchy of certain zones over others. Having owned the site for some time prior, the client was closely connected to the land and had their own vision for how they wanted the form to sit amongst the landscape – and for how they wanted to live. From a love of textural and emotive materials, a deeply rich palette of both natural and polished elements comes together to emphasise an earthiness, while ensuring a contemporary familiarity is felt throughout. The combined efforts of Enoki and Proske Architects ensure a fittingly robust and sense-engaging home emerges.

Unlike many prominent forms within rural settings, the client wanted to steer away from the traditional and live within an expression of texture.

Cantilevering out over its site, a highly engineered solution allows the form to jut out and embrace the surrounds. Unlike many prominent forms within rural settings, the client wanted to steer away from the traditional and live within an expression of texture. The transition over the entry threshold feels like a portal, taking visitors into a place of intended calm, protected from the elements within the confines of the home, while being refined through its crafted details. An expression of the natural is felt throughout, with selections encasing each of the resulting spaces, allowing the movement of the sun across the day to animate and cast shadows internally.

Upon entering, the generous arrival sequence sees the strongly outlined T-shape of the plan direct views out and hint at the function in each direction. The stone-clad pod that marks the entry also acts as a prelude to the textural subtleties to come, as well as reinforcing strength. The plan then opens up in four directions where a combined living and dining space sits at the end of one, overlooking the vines, to the master suite, the children’s wing and lastly down to the cellar and garage. The home is essentially a breakdown of distinct zones, which are connected through shared circulation and a free-flowing movement.

From a love of textural and emotive materials, a deeply rich palette of both natural and polished elements comes together to emphasise an earthiness, while ensuring a contemporary familiarity is felt throughout.

Warm and textural, Vigneron House results from a less typical approach through its refined detailing and heightened materiality, yet Enoki and Proske Architects have ensured it feels appropriate and beautifully responsive to its site.