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2025 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner

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This innovative family home masterfully integrates with its rural-urban fringe context, honouring both the landscape and the owners' lifestyle. Inspired by a majestic golden elm tree, the design features curved timber slats and perforated metal screens that ensure privacy while enhancing aesthetic and climatic control. With an open-plan heart, strategic voids, and intimate nooks, the home fosters a strong connection to nature and encourages family engagement, including interaction with unique beloved pets. Constructed using a rich yet resilient palette of materials, this residence exemplifies thoughtful planning and design, balancing contemporary living with natural harmony.

 
Practice
Stufkens + Chambers Architects
Category
Housing
Location
Canterbury
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