Monday 1 August 2011
Modern house exterior
Located on a south facing ravine adjacent to one Brisbane’s oldest ridgeline roads – Dornoch Terrace. The Highgate Hill Residence was designed by Richard Kirk Architect. The steepness of the rectangular site has resulted in a verdant and mature landscape consisting of a mixture of native and exotics, which created the opportunity to place the house within a rich landscape environment.
As a result of the steepness of the site and the desire to connect the house to an outdoor ground plane the house adopts two distinct identities – the north (landscape) and east (street) is a diminutive floating single level volume hovering over fine steel pins – the south and west (distant views) the vertical and monumental character is revealed of the tall three level residence
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