Banana Tree House / YARD Architects
Our clients for Banana Tree House are from Germany and Jamaica, and their initial brief contained images of tropical plants, houses in Brazil and pictures exotic holidays.
Our clients for Banana Tree House are from Germany and Jamaica, and their initial brief contained images of tropical plants, houses in Brazil and pictures exotic holidays.
Our response is to use an eclectic but carefully chosen palette of materials and colours to give the house this painterly and textured quality. A main component of the design is a concrete and timber tree which…
Located in the fast-developing Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie borough of Montréal, deNormanville house is part of the first wave of post-moratorium additions exploring new avenues for the transformation of the city’s disappearing one-story typology, commonly referred to as “shoeboxes”.
Designed for a family of two parents, a grandparent, two adult children, one girlfriend, and two dogs, this new inter-generational 290 sq m home in the eastern suburbs of Sydney was an opportunity for us to rethink…
Located on a lazy bend of the Derwent River in Hobart, this house accentuates the drama of living on the water’s edge. Connections with the landscape oscillate between enclosure and embrace. A courtyard, a colonnade, ledges and…
Caroline House is an alteration and addition to a weatherboard Edwardian house in inner Melbourne. The rear of the house faces south, where there is a generous garden. We restored and re-imagined the existing house and added…
Brick Courtyard House is located within Sydney’s Western suburbs, an area typified by post-war brick cottages, and increasingly peppered by unsympathetic project home development. Unique to the site is the presence of a forested lake reserve.
The Glass House is a new build house which references the form and materiality of the surrounding agricultural buildings. The house is designed to embed itself in a historic brick garden wall – a remnant of a…
The ground floor plan of Hennessey House has been completely transformed by removing partitions to create spacious living spaces, filled with daylight from a new floating cantilever extension and pitched glazed sized return.