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.
Pier Pavilion Competition
Barangaroo, Sydney
OUR CONCEPT
Western civilisation operates under the illusion that things have permanence or solidity.
Native culture deals with change far more instinctively than western culture.
Its engagement with nature is direct, unfiltered and pragmatic, shelter is often made from materials found from immediate surrounds, structures often only last for a season or even less than that.
Our design honors this wisdom through its form and materials.
A steel space frame floats like a cloud in the sky, sprinkling filtered light to the ground plane, speaking of the temporary but with the robustness of steel. A clear spans allows flexibility for events, installations and gatherings. A clear glass roof minimises any distraction with the frame.
A tear drop roof form creates a natural focus to where a stage might go.
The pavilion has a clarity of form when viewed from far away and when up close it has an intimacy created by a complexity of surfaces.
EPHEMERAL
Rock walls filter light and offer protection from prevailing winds in a form that suggests movement, change.
Smaller gaps in the wall provide intimacy with the surroundings, glimpses of things.
POROSITY
The rock absorbs moisture and releases it. Wet stone has a certain smell that connects us back to nature.
The rock wall is not shiny, there are enough new shiny objects in the world lets not make this one of them.