Boral Roofing has announced the following results of its 2007 Design Award, A Different Pitch:
- Professional Category Winner – dKO Architecture (Sydney) for Weaving Landscape. Project team: Sony Lim, Ben Johnson, Emma Fenton and Nick Byrne.
- Highly Commended – MPS Architects (Brisbane) for Breathing Roof House. Project team: Peter Ong and Adam Garton.
- Highly Commended – Edmund Carter from Edmund Carter (Melbourne) for Peak House.
- Student Category Winner – Ben Attrill (University of Melbourne) for Scale House.
After several hours deliberating, the jury was unanimous in its decision to award first prize to Weaving Landscape by dKO Architecture for “its finely crafted and ingenious reworking of the typical family home”.
It commented: “Weaving Landscape by dKO Architecture was considered to be a highly inventive adaptation of the courtyard house type, with a dramatically swooping and enclosing roof plane, generously proportioned interior spaces, sensitively oriented plan, creatively designed street address and a completed design concept of integrity.”
Sony Lim from dKO Architecture said the smooth and minimalist aesthetic of Boral’s Terracotta Shingle in Evergreen accentuated the continuity of the roof element and its integration with both living and recreational areas of the dwelling.
“As one continuous element, the roof serves many roles. Primarily it weaves through the site as roof plane, morphing into wall and transforming into the ground plane, where it then plunges below ground level to become the base of the bathing pond, and finally, emerges as a roofscape in triumphant conclusion,“ he said.
Brett Sargeant, Boral Roofing’s National General Manager, congratulated the winners and finalists at an Awards dinner at Comme in Melbourne on 28 November, where they presented their concepts.
“All finalists are to be commended for their balance between innovative and sustainable design principles, realistic construction and creative application of Boral roof tiles,” he said.
