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.
Oratava Avenue Residential Design and Masterplan
West Pennant Hills, Sydney
This 1.6 Hectare site is set in a context of large detached homes with deep green front setbacks and is one of the highest in metropolitan Sydney. It is approximately 160m above sea level with long western views to the Blue Mountains. The site has steep falls and gradients throughout which provided limitations to where buildings could be located. Glyde_Bautovich were commissioned to provide the master plan and 17 individually designed homes each over 400m2 in area and 2-3 storey’s high.
As the site is large, the new community needed to have its own identity but also integrate with the existing context. Conceptually the design strives to work within the landscape and the sites natural levels.
The design strived to ensure that the new precinct would not be seen as a gated community and sought to encourage the public into the site to walk through it via a publicly accessible pathway to a reserve to the north. Houses fronting Oratava Avenue blend into to the local context using appropriate bulk and scale, space between buildings and landscaping that is in keeping with the existing species.
The use of local and natural materials were chosen for their recessive qualities and allow the landscape to be the dominating feature of this project. The absence of front fencing complements this idea and allows opportunity for the residents to interact, using the landscape as a subtle buffer between public and private realms.
