2022 National Commendation for Residential Architecture – Houses (New)

Jury citation

The revelation of the Corner House, which is a fascinating study in an ordered and considered plan, is its clarity of spatial sequencing, and the intensified and harbouring nature of the garden court. Shielding the residence from an active arterial road, the exterior intensifies a gentle, protected landscape strategy, which has been iteratively honed through Archier’s considerable research into the idea of the garden room.

The plan arrangement is ambitious, nuanced and carefully composed, creating a new internal topography that is warm and delightful. The garden court section is subtly terraced and modulated as a series of stepping rooms, which work with the transparencies of the cruciform courtyard plan. Climate-ameliorating and tectonically rich, the house establishes a clear strategy of a protective exterior alongside welcoming interiors.

Project credits

Architect Archier; Builder PMV Built; Landscape consultant Openwork; Windows Binq;

Corner House is located in Flinders, Victoria on the land of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation.