Hill House by Andrew Maynard Architects (pictured) has been named overall winner in the 2012 Vision Awards run by Australian glass manufacturer Viridian.
All the winners were announced at the 2012 National Architecture Conference in Brisbane.
Now in their fourth year, the awards are designed to celebrate and promote the energy efficient and innovative use of glass in Australian architecture.
Winning the Overall Vision Award Winner category secured a prize trip to Venice with two passes to the exclusive opening of the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale for Andrew Maynard Architects for their work on the Hill House project.
Viridian’s Commercial Channel Manager Anthony Gunther presented the awards and said that the interest from the industry this year had been outstanding.
“The quality of this year’s entries was of an exceptionally high standard. Competition was strongly contested. The judging panel of industry representatives were split in their decision making in one of the categories leading them to select joint winners for the Residential Creative Interior Glass Application award,” explained Anthony.
“The entrants profiled in all five categories showcased the increasingly sophisticated and innovative ways in which glass applications are being used to transform buildings and living environments in projects throughout the country.”
The 2012 Vision Award category winners are:
Residential Energy Efficient Glass Design and Overall 2012 Vision Award Winner Andrew Maynard Architects for Hill House
Residential Creative Interior Glass Application - Joint Winners
- Fiona Winzar Architects for the Victoria Road House (pictured above)
- Carterwilliamson Architects for Bondi House (pictured below)
Commercial Energy Efficient Glass Design
-H2o Architects for the Swinburne University Advanced Technologies Centre
Commercial Creative Interior Glass Application
- Vincent Chrisp Architects for the Centre for Sustainable Water Management
Residential Energy Efficient Glass Design and Overall 2012 Vision Award Winner
Andrew Maynard Architects for Hill House (Northcote, Victoria)
Project — Renovation and extension to family home. The project was focused on adapting the home to facilitate the needs of the family’s three children and ultimately to create a space where all the family can gather and play. Glass played a key role in the project allowing the home to achieve solar access and creating a strong visual relationship between the indoor living space and outdoor hill.
Viridian Products:
· Living area of extension - ThermoTech™ E (double glazed units)
· Master Bedroom - ThermoTech™ E (double glazed units)
· Other windows - ThermoTech™ E (double glazed units)
Residential Creative Interior Glass Application Category — Joint Winner
Fiona Winzar Architects for Victoria Road House (Hawthorn, East Victoria)
Project — A residential extension to a double fronted Victorian Terrace home. The use of full height glass in the crescent shaped addition at the rear of the house facing the deck, pool and garden creates a seamless relationship between the interior living area and exterior landscape.
Viridian Products:
· Double glazed units to crescent (facing outdoor pool, deck and garden) - toughened 4mm + 8mm argon gas filled space + toughened 4mm
· Highlight Windows — DecorColour™ Ruby Red and Arctic Snow 10.76mm laminated glass
· Bathroom Windows - DecorColour™ Ruby Red 10.78mm laminated glass
Residential Creative Interior Glass Application Category - Joint Winner
Carterwilliamson Architects for Bondi House (Bondi, Sydney)
Project — A suburban coastal house. The use of glass was crucial to the theme and functioning of this home. The blue-glazed lightwell captures natural light from the skylight and filters it throughout the heart of the property. Creating the feel of a contemporary beach house, the glass materials used were specifically chosen to compliment and reflect the colours and tone of the Bondi landscape.
Viridian Products:
· Skylight and window - ComfortPlus™ Neutral
· Glazed panels —blue colour-backed VFloat™ 10mm toughened glass
Commercial Energy Efficient Glass Design Category
H2O Architects for Swinburne University Advanced Technologies Centre (SUT ATC) (Hawthorn, Melbourne)
Project — The ATC facilitates 19, 000 square metres of state-of- the -art research and learning centres within a 2,000 square metre footprint. It is the first educational building in Australia to be awarded a five star Green Star rating using the Education v.1 Tool from the Green Building Council of Australia.
Viridian Products:
· Lecture theatre internal and external glazing - 12.38mm laminated toughened Low E glass
· External and internal glazing to learning hub - 10.38mm Low E clear laminated glass
· North face to entry concourse wall and roofs of external bridges - 12.38mm laminated VFloat™ Grey
· Round facade windows - DigiGlass Ruby Red stained glass 3mm thick in tri-laminate: 4mm clear toughened to both sides, nominal total thickness 12.52mm and 6.38mm clear laminated glass & VFloat™ Grey laminated glass
· Spandrel façade glazing - toughened glass with opaque spandrel interlayer film
· Balcony external windows, strong cell walls (internal and external), east, west and south faces of entry concourses, internal glazed walls and south faces of bridges - 10.38mm clear toughened glass
· Learning hub west and east spandrel walls -10.38mm laminated glass colour backed (opaque)
· Internal framed windows, highlight internal windows in learning hub - 8.38mm laminated glass
· North faces of all external bridges -10.38mm laminated VFloat™ Grey
· Roofs of airlocks, skylights at east/west concourse with 4 sided structural support - VFloat™ Grey and 10.76mm VLam™ Clear
· Skylights at north/south concourse -10.76mm VFloat™ Grey laminated toughened glass
· Roofs of airlocks with two sided structural support -16.76mm toughened VLam™ Clear
Commercial Creative Interior Glass Application Category
Vincent Chrisp Architects for the Centre for Sustainable Water Management, Chisholm Institute of TAFE Cranbourne Campus. (Cranbourne, Melbourne)
Project — The Centre for Sustainable Water Management is unique to Australia, as it is the only centre that provides a fully integrated training approach across all phases of the sustainable water management cycle. The centre consists of large covered training spaces, teaching & administration areas. Provides industry specific training in water infrastructure, environmental water management and water efficiency.
Viridian Products:
· East 'bubble' facade (ground floor) and north ‘speckled’ facade — DecorColour™ Aquamarine, Sapphire, True Blue and Evening Shadow
· 6mm VLam™ with Low E
· East facade stair -13.52mm VLam™ and toughened EVantage™
· Internal glazing - 12mm VLam™ Clear
