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Argentea residence
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Landscape Architect: VIVO Design
LOCATION: Palm Cove, Cairns
This small scale residential project is an excellent example of a successful collaboration between the architect and landscape architect, resulting in a site responsive, sustainable solution, entirely appropriate to the sub tropical rainforest context.
Key factors of the design include the following:
- Seamless integration of the home into the natural rainforest surroundings
- Retention of existing trees previously identified for removal
- Transplant of existing pandanus species previously identified for removal
- Successful collaboration with the architects to create a living environment that embraces the subtropical surrounds
- Use of plant species which blend with the natural environment whilst also answering the clients brief for a lush, textured tropical resort type environment
- Design and construction of a dry creek bed gully through the home which respected and enhanced the natural overland flow path on the site previously
- Use of landscape materials which respond to the rainforest gully environment (e.g. stone, local pebble, timber)
- Use of water features to further enhance living environments and separate living spaces from bedroom quarters
- Creation of a low maintenance low water use landscape
- Demonstrating to other purchasers that a sustainable, site responsive home, can also be a high quality, beautifully detailed, rich environment in which to live.
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