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.
Chapel Hill Road House, Boorolite, VIC
This is the concept design for a 500 m2 two storey house. We started by placing a mark (a cross) on the site like you would on a map. The cross of the mark could be seen as a simple compass which started a dialogue with the sun and surrounding views.
The lines became rooms that project into the landscape to frame views. The intersection of these rooms became a natural place for a stair and internal circulation. A skylight frames a view of the sky and lights the space from above. This central space offers a retreat from the landscape by being a quiet darker place where one can be drawn out to the views beyond.
The walls of this central space could be used to hang family photos, memorabilia, and also bookshelves. Placing family and knowledge at the centre of the house and perhaps wine, as the stair continues down to a cellar bellow.
Each room has a unique spatial quality that is unexpected and fun that creates a soulful joyful connection with the view.
The arrangement of the floor plan this way creates spaces that can offer everyone a place to be alone or together. Each space is linked externally by an outdoor patio and internally to the central circulation zone. The different formal characters of these spaces creates a sculptural quality to the outside of the building.
The use of corten steel to both concepts for the outside of the building accentuates the form of the house and at the same time creates an object that has a natural connection to the earth. Internally the use of timber connects the house with nature. It has a recessive quality which does not compete with the landscape.