Grove Garden

Manly | 2020

Grove Garden

A playful family home, breathing from the inside.

This family home garden was developed in collaboration with Dan Young Landscape Architect. Designed by Dan Young, the central courtyard is a breathing core of layered subtropical greenery. It was carefully moulded to be experienced from different perspectives - from the upper levels, filtered views through the canopies of a grove of tree ferns; from the ground level, they can be traversed over rolling mounds of greenery.

The backyard, designed by Green Care Project, is a family-centred productive meadow, inviting inhabitants to play, lounge, and grow food. In this process, we explored ways to close the loop with construction materials and reduce waste. We repurposed defective concrete stormwater pipes from a local civil infrastructure supplier as raised food garden beds, which also doubled as retaining for the rolling lawn.

COLLABORATORS
landscape architecture

Dan Young Landscape Architect

landscape install

Green Care Project

architect

Cavill Architects

builder

Concord Built

photography

Jonathan Oldham

Grove Garden
Grove Garden
Grove Garden
Grove Garden
Playful and productive - two key concepts that anchored our design intent for this exciting project.
Grove Garden
Grove Garden
Grove Garden
Grove Garden
Grove Garden
Grove Garden