TreeHouse greening the West End skyline
澳门玄机图鈥� Landscape Architecture team has created an award-winning garden oasis for the TreeHouse residential building in Brisbane鈥檚 West End.
Incorporating greenery
The need to cater for population growth while maintaining green spaces is an ongoing challenge for inner-city suburbs.
Governments and developers are increasingly looking to landscape architects to offer solutions, and to help ensure high-density residential buildings are sympathetic and add value to the surrounding environment.
With this in mind, Aria Property Group engaged 澳门玄机图 to help design the landscape response for the residential building in Brisbane鈥檚 West End called TreeHouse.
Living greenery principles
From the outset, the building had greenery at its core. The 澳门玄机图 Landscape Architecture team was involved from the earliest phases of the building鈥檚 design, where 鈥� in essence - the building was reverse designed to ensure the position of trees and the tree canopy would shape the structure鈥檚 overall footprint.
Meticulous consideration was given to the site鈥檚 location to ensure it complemented the West End riverside area and the well-established Davies Park.
Planning of the fa莽ade allowed for 60 trees to be planted to achieve TreeHouse鈥檚 vision of 鈥榣iving within the trees鈥�. And all floors, unit types and sizes 鈥� no matter the price point 鈥� would have access to a fa莽ade tree. This is in line with living greenery principles, where the use of plants goes beyond the functional benefits of shade provision and reduced heat-island effect, to incorporate accessibility - equal access to greenery.
The building鈥檚 rooftop was designed to cater for recreation and relaxation with pools, peaceful areas and vegetation to frame the views.
TreeHouse鈥檚 design demonstrates how leafy outlooks can be incorporated into high rise building schemes, how active and healthy garden experiences can be created in the city, and how dense built form structures can reflect and enhance the natural character of our inner-city suburbs.
