Commendation for Small Project Architecture – The Waratah Studio by Studio 505

Commendation for Small Project Architecture – The Waratah Studio by Studio 505

The studio pavilion is a striking sculptural structure as part of the awarded “Australian Garden” built at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. It sits in and above a larger rock cliff, waterfall and rain-forest installation.

The studio structure is an intriguing complex organic form made disarmingly simply from interlocking ply petals, aluminium framing and clear acrylic infill panels. It is fabricated almost exclusively from off-cut materials including re-purposed plywood CAM cut with minimum wastage. The frame is made from off-cut aluminium sections from a boat building workshop.

The design resolves extremely complex geometries into modular components that come together to create a rich, organically varied form that perfectly mirrors the natural world it sits amongst and extols.