Lake Connewarre

Location: Wadawurrung Country (Lake Connewarre)

Category: Residential - Coastal

Architect: Kerstin Thompson

Year Completed: Ongoing

Project Description:

The site was originally degraded farmland. tnla and associates have worked with the client for over twenty years to develop the site and to re-establish the saltmarsh habitat on the shores of Lake Connewarre and the Yellow Gum woodland on the escarpment.

The architectural form is accentuated by its immersion in a series of planted bands across the site. The expanse of sky and water is strategically manipulated to provide a limited and sequential experience as one travels through the site from the front gate to the house. The site is organised from agricultural, controlled, through to 'wild space’ as one moves deeper from the orchard to the house, through the woodland and down the escarpment to the saltmarsh, the lake, the long horizon line and ultimately up and out toward the sky.

Original landscape concept in collaboration with Fiona Harrison.