Buildings and Living Things

Name: Buildings and Living Things
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SKU: 9781948765800
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Garden House

By Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright

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Buildings and Living Things explores the intersection of architecture and nature through the Garden House by Baracco+Wright Architects. Photographs by Rory Gardiner capture the delicate balance between built form and living systems, showcasing a holiday house designed as a minimal, tent-like structure integrated seamlessly into its natural environment. The project emphasises environmental repair, with native vegetation and seasonal waters flowing naturally through the site, embodying a philosophy that values the relationship between individual components and the architectural whole.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book will appeal to readers interested in sustainable architecture, environmental design, and the thoughtful integration of buildings with natural landscapes. It is also suited to architects, designers, and students seeking insight into ecological approaches to architectural practice.

This holiday house is conceived as just a little more than a tent...

Description

Buildings and Living Things documents the materiality and spaces of the Garden House by Baracco+Wright Architects, through photographs by Rory Gardiner. The imagery and thoughts reflect on the dialogue of building, life, and systems conceived in an ongoing project of environmental repair.

This holiday house is conceived as just a little more than a tent: a deck and raised platform are covered by a transparent 'shed'; the interior perimeter 'veranda' is garden space. The soil and natural ground line are maintained and carried through; a low-lying site with terrestrial orchids and lilies, flood waters seasonally move through the site unimpeded; similarly, the indigenous vegetation has begun to grow inside.

Baracco+Wright believe in a wide role for architectural thinking beyond the individual building. All projects are approached with particular and equal attention to the parts and the whole, to individual project conditions, and to the discourse of Architecture.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781948765800

Publisher: Actar Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Actar Publishers

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 288.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 72

Collections

Arts & Culture Louise Wright Mauro Baracco Non-Fiction

About the Author

Louise Wright is a co-director of Baracco + Wright Architects (B+W). She has a PhD in architecture (RMIT University) and is also a sessional lecturer in design at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. B+W believe in a wide role for architectural thinking beyond the individual building. All projects are approached with a particular and equal attention to the parts and the whole, to individual project conditions and to the discourse of architecture. Working across a diverse range of locations, from inner urban areas to sensitive rural and coastal environments, they explore how to make architecture that is generous, opportunistic and connected to a local physical environment as well as the non-physical mixed conditions of each context. They consider the potential of even very small interventions over a large scale. The work of B+W is shifting more and more towards landscape based approaches.

Formerly the Deputy Dean of Landscape Architecture (2013-2015), Mauro is a member of RMIT's School of Architecture and Design executive committee and The Centre for Design Practice Research (d___ Lab) through which he leads consulting projects in partnership with industry and government bodies. Mauro is also a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering of Milan Polytechnic, Italy.

Mauro was born and educated in Italy where he practiced and taught at Turin Polytechnic and the European Institute of Design, Milan. He moved to Melbourne in 1996, where he has been an academic at RMIT since, and a director of Baracco + Wright Architects. His research explores states of integration between open and built spaces, and natural and urban environments, spanning from large territorial/urban to small site scales. Mauro's projects and writings have been widely published in books and journals (Domus, Abitare, Casabella, A+U, Transition, Architecture Australia among others), exhibited and awarded nationally and internationally, and presented at conferences and symposia.