Northbridge House

by Jorge Hrdina Architects

Teetering over its steep rocky positioning, above the bend of the road below, Northbridge is designed as a robust and fortuitously grounded architectural object. We highlight the nuanced and well-articulated utilisation of such a challenging site, through integrated and purposed landscape interventions, texture and a sensibility to context. Jorge Hrdina Architects have taken influence from the medieval castle, referencing the home’s proximity to its rugged coastline and its unrelenting solidity – expressed in both materiality and form. Comprising three separate pavilions, the buildings and their respective functionality is inked in a formal and planning sense, all with directive vistas outward. Combining textural sandstone, formed concrete, recycled ironbark and other timbers, there is an inherent sense of play between the closed formal weighted architectural elements, and the carved openings.

Teetering over its steep rocky positioning, above the bend of the road below, Northbridge is designed as a robust and fortuitously grounded architectural object. We highlight the nuanced and well-articulated utilisation of such a challenging site, through integrated and purposed landscape interventions, texture and a sensibility to context. Jorge Hrdina Architects have taken influence from the medieval castle, referencing the home’s proximity to its rugged coastline and its unrelenting solidity – expressed in both materiality and form. Comprising three separate pavilions, the buildings and their respective functionality is inked in a formal and planning sense, all with directive vistas outward. Combining textural sandstone, formed concrete, recycled ironbark and other timbers, there is an inherent sense of play between the closed formal weighted architectural elements, and the carved openings.