Clifton Street House

Location: Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country (Richmond)

Category: Residential - Urban

Architects: JCB Architects

Year Completed: 2021

Project Description:

Clifton Street garden is a collaborative project with Jon Clements of JCB Architects, focusing on enhancing texture and form through a refined material palette.

The house facade sits within the materiality of the garden surrounds. The leftover slimline bricks from the house construction were repurposed for the garden ground plane, fragmenting out into the north-facing courtyard, drawing the eye from the inside out into the courtyard. This fragmentation interlaced with textured planting softens the house's form. The simplified hardscaping palette brings the plant life into focus, using fine-textured foliage of a mix of Mediterranean edible and Australian native and indigenous plant species, locating the garden in its historical Richmond Hill context, and making the house and garden one.