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Skygarden House

Skygarden House

Architecture Architecture

Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross

LANDSCAPE DESIGNERS
Renata Fairhall Garden Designs

PHOTOGRAPHS
Tom Ross

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Albert Park, Australia

CATEGORY
Houses

Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross

Text description provided by architect.

Skygarden has its genesis in tessellated ornament, the color fields of abstract art, the hanging gardens of Babylon, and James Turrell’s immersive installations, where sensory deprivations eventually give rise to figments (and pigments) of imagination.

In some cultures, certain geometries are thought to be a bridge to the spiritual world, a window to the infinite above.

Similarly, practitioners of abstract art seek to liberate composition and color from the realms of the known.

Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross

A lifelong pilot, Turrell has cultivated a fascination with light, atmospheres, and their unearthly effects.

Sandwiched between two terraces, Skygarden is punctuated by three pigmented light shafts lined in tessellated tiles, drawing sunlight and color deep into its chambers.

In the course of a day, each shaft passes through phases of luminance and shadow, bathing the house in an ever-changing wash of mixed hues.

Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross

Momentarily suspended, a single droplet

warmed by sun, draws light into its prism.

fanning whites into greens, into pinks and blues -

once a wave / a particle, now a symphony.

Of colour; a delicate song

blossoms in the sky.

Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross


Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross
Skygarden House
© Tom Ross


Skygarden House
Plan - Ground Floor
Skygarden House
Plan - 1st Floor

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