eton
2025
Eton explores the potential of reversing engagement porcesses to shape the project's conception, recognising the importance of learning from other disciplines and of interpreting found knowledge through design.
This project, for us, interrogated the possibilities of architecture as a collaborative endeavour, and brought us to question our role and responsibility in the repair of Country, in reinforcing our connections with the natural world in an urban setting, in enabling truth-listening and recognising the destruction that has taken place before us. For us, Eton has paved the way for a new way of working and shifted the practice's focus. Ultimately, the project is the result of the deep trust our clients and collaborators placed in us.
The house is grounded by a Noongar presence and is subservient to the landscape proposition. This comes from a desire to repair Country and respond to current environmental factors, attempting to re-establish a dialogue between history and building practice. The project is the provision of a generous dwelling and two distinct and particular working spaces for the human inhabitants. The strong relationship between interior and exterior is intensified by allowing the garden(s) and non-human inhabitants to reign over the site.
Contributor/s
Builder: Element Builders Pty Ltd
First Nations Consaltant: Brendan Moore
Landscape Consultant: Supernatural
Structural Engineer: Forth Consulting,
Rain Water Storage: ANC Distribution
ESD Consultant: The Study
Services Consultant: Green Star Solutions
Services Consultant: CM Engineering
Living Pool consultant: Landscape Quest
photography: Leo Showell
