Peter Garrett has been an Australian icon for the last 30 years. While he started his rise to fame in the rock band Midnight Oil, he has recently become the environmental face of the Australian Labour Party. While these two roles may seem lifetimes (and worlds apart), Peter’s move into politics can be viewed simply as a maturing of his passionate ideals. While always being at the forefront of environmental and indigenous activism he has now positioned himself in a place where he can be more influential. Along with this maturing has come a family and a more relaxed approach to life. Peter now enjoys just reading and listening to CD’s…not surprising considering how hectic it must be being the only male in a house of four females. Because of these combination of things along with his jet setting work life, it was fitting that this be a holiday house.

Queensland was the only real option as far as site plans go due to Peter’s self confessed love of surfing, the great outdoors, and the Northern end of Australia. The house is designed to bring the outside in and vice-versa with only the basic areas being inside and plenty of outdoor areas for entertaining or just relaxing.

With 3 teenage girls it was important that these spaces be separate enough to allow each person their space but not segregated and isolating from the rest of the family. With this in mind, the upstairs area is a dedicated space just for Peter’s daughters where they can do their own thing while still being connected to the downstairs decking. It was important that the girls had this area as, as they get older chances are that they will bring friends and (eventually) partners on holiday with them…and nobody’s idea of a holiday is living in their parents pockets.

Final Layout

Location Map

Site Plan 1:500

Ground Floor Plan 1:100

Second Level Plan 1:100

South Elevation 1:100

North Elevation 1:100

West Elevation 1:100

East Elevation 1:100

Section AA 1:100

Section BB 1:100

Client: Peter Garret

Site: Eumundi, Queensland

Potentials Explored: Weaving, Packing, Spiralling, Cracking

Weaving

Final Weaving Potential

This is by far my favourite outcome of the entire exercise. I find the organised chaos of the design extremely eye-catching. The weaving exercise is what made the assignment make sense to me...before this just "clicked" i was going around in aimless circles for DAYS! -----------------------------------------------------------------------

I love these two designs (above and below) from an artistic point of view. It took me a while to work out whether or not i could develope anything from them but i thought they were so visually effective that i made a point of including them.

Spiraling

Final Spiral Potential

This came about quite unexpectedly (although I gather that this is the general idea of this exercise). One of the reasons i chose the Spiral exercise is because, honestly, i thought it would be one of the easier options but, as i found, it probably took me longer than the other three. I think is turned out as one of the best, most finalised results.

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I lost these pretty materials when i moved to my home PC which (apparently) doesn't have any decent materials)

Everything finally started taking shape...

Packing

Final Packing Potential

I struggled a lot more with Packing. Whenever i thought i was getting somewhere...i would end up taking a wrong turn and find myself looking a something that better represented cracking or even spiralling.

I can really imagine this style of architecture on the site I've chosen (in Eumund).

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