Our latest residential design to be implemented is on the RAIA shortlisted building, Orb House by Bojan Simic.
A striking modernist pavilion that on first visit left me in awe and wondering how to capture it’s spirit and permeate that through the landscape. The reality was that the conceptual work came through with relative ease. Clear communication with client and architect, together with my appreciation of the buildings simple geometric form allowed me to formulate ideas quickly.
When you love something any task related to that love becomes easy. So in landscape design, when you love the space that you are designing the ideas flow. They not only flow, they rarely need to undertake a major rework as the Genius loci is automatically connected to. This was certainly the case with Orb House.
It may be a little heavy under foot w.r.t. environmental impact, however you cannot deny the bold form, driven by a solid philosophical argument.
The landscape is a work in progress as there is a view that it’s impact on the planet needs to be offset by an increase in plant material (greenroof) and sustainable technologies. It’s a bit like trying to part-extract a pin that was hit with a sledgehammer.
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