About our aspirations
Glyde_Bautovich are architects, urban designers and planners who work together and separately to transform resources, regulations, programs, and ideas into places of beauty.
We believe in the ‘spirit of place’ or genius loci and passionately engage in the art of making meaningful places of distinctive character through a careful process.
We research and analyse client aspirations, economics, demographics, urban structure, history, building typologies and appropriate precedents.
We re-use and revisit these layers that are beneath the surface to inform an appropriate outcome.
The place becomes a palimpsest set within its context.
The experience of the public space, what makes the city or place stick together, becomes rich, activated and vital.
Our analysis feeds into the architectural process which becomes form driven whereby we mould the fabric of the building to engage with nature, capture light and air, in a way that we know will lead to joyful inhabitation.
We breath in information, aspirations and breath out a new space or building as an offering to the people of the city and those who occupy them.
About our aspirations
Glyde_Bautovich are architects, urban designers and planners who work together and separately to transform resources, regulations, programs, and ideas into places of beauty.
We believe in the ‘spirit of place’ or genius loci and passionately engage in the art of making meaningful places of distinctive character through a careful process.
We research and analyse client aspirations, economics, demographics, urban structure, history, building typologies and appropriate precedents.
We re-use and revisit these layers that are beneath the surface to inform an appropriate outcome.
The place becomes a palimpsest set within its context.
The experience of the public space, what makes the city or place stick together, becomes rich, activated and vital.
Our analysis feeds into the architectural process which becomes form driven whereby we mould the fabric of the building to engage with nature, capture light and air, in a way that we know will lead to joyful inhabitation.
We breath in information, aspirations and breath out a new space or building as an offering to the people of the city and those who occupy them.
Complying Development
Low Rise Housing Diversity Code
Medium Density Housing Competition
The Manor House, Villawood, Sydney
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The manor house typology is suitable to groups with large extended families. The demographics for the area show that the greatest ethnic groups in Villawood are Lebanese and Vietnamese and these groups are known for large extended families. The layout and design has been configured to suit such a group. The ground floor dwelling has been universally designed to provide for accessible accommodation suitable for aged persons or parents, with a second living space to the rear that could be become a third bedroom for a carer. Upper level dwellings would suit adult children. Staircases at either end of the building make access to all parts of the site freely accessible. The rear staircase directly accesses the useable communal space and screens clothes lines promoting social interaction while respecting privacy. The generous front setback area is given over to the public realm with a mounded landscape element providing a balance of privacy and engagement with the street to the ground floor dwelling. The upper level dwellings private open space is characterised by large vertical openings that provide privacy and a sense of security.
The proposal has been designed to be recognisable as a single dwelling house when viewed from the street. The skillion roof form rising to the north maximises north sun and responds to surrounding context in the street. The delineation between ground, first floor and roof gives the building a horizontal relationship to the ground plane. The front section of the building is highest, appropriately giving presence to the street with the rear section much lower with a roof level commensurate with adjoining properties.