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.
Via, 210 Victoria Road, Gladesville, NSW
Via is a mixed use development with 3 levels of basement and 5 levels above ground comprising 31 units with commercial/retail at ground level.
Built within the local City of Ryde area this buildings main concept was to make a new public space activated by commercial/retail uses. This north facing space is activated on two street frontages and by a through site link that connects them together.
Formally the building responds to the roof geometry of the adjoining churches. The use of angled screens and walls when viewed from the street. The use of dry pressed brickwork with protruding courses that articulate the corners with texture of light and shadow furthers the connection with the context. The brickwork in conjunction with the off form concrete will over time help the building age gracefully with an enduring aesthetic.
A deliberate decision was made not to use glass balustrades to the balconies of the apartments. This was done so as to make the building more recessive and less reflective in its environment with less maintenance and without the ugly detailing that can often come with standard glass balustrades.
A simple sculptural form resting on a symbolic podium defines the top of the building on Victoria Road. It is both a nod to the power of constructivist architecture of the 20th century and the power of real estate in Sydney.