The outdoor living at the Bournian Residence is not a gesture toward the exterior, it is the heart of the plan.
A courtyard resolved in masonry, timber and stone, where covered and open zones transition without threshold and the architecture holds the space together without enclosing it.
Designed from the outset to accommodate generations, the scale is generous and the detailing unhurried.
A place that invites people to arrive and gives them every reason to stay.
Architecture + Interiors | @risearch_au
Partnered with @abeyaustralia
Videographer | @thelocalproduction_
Builder | @exhibithomes
Landscape designer | CG Gardens
Brick supplier | @ahbricksnpavers
Cobblestone Pavers | @ecooutdoor
Floor tiles | @urbanedgeceramics
BBQ + fireplace | Decorative Concrete
Two residences.
One block.
Two entirely different architectural conversations.
Yarraford Avenue Residence site one is the first of a dual-site project currently in development with Oviss Group.
A clean, white modern form that sets its tone from the street and doesn't waver.
Client + Developer | @oviss.group
The Bournian Residence reveals itself slowly, the way a home should.
Its masonry facade shifts in texture as the light moves through the day, and the roofline responds to the interior life unfolding beneath it rather than the street it faces.
At the centre of the composition stands a tree that predates the build by decades.
One that the architecture was drawn around, preserved as both a design anchor and a quiet reminder that the best homes are shaped as much by what was already there as by what is added.
This is a home designed to be lived in fully.
Where morning light enters at the angles that matter, where the garden is never far from view, and where every considered detail fades into the background of a daily life that simply feels right.
Architecture + Interiors | @risearch_au
Partnered with @abeyaustralia
Videographer | @thelocalproduction_
Builder | @exhibithomes
Landscape designer | CG Gardens
Brick supplier | @ahbricksnpavers
The Bournian Residence.
A home graciously designed by Joel for his own family, shaped by circumstance, and resolved with a depth of care that goes beyond architecture alone.
What emerged is a sanctuary.
A home built around warmth, security and the quiet details that make a space feel entirely like someone's own.
Architecture + Interiors | @risearch_au
Partnered with @abeyaustralia
Videographer | @thelocalproduction_
Builder | @exhibithomes
Landscape designer | CG Gardens
Brick supplier | @ahbricksnpavers
Kitchen stone | @graystonetiles
Floor tiles | @urbanedgeceramics
Microcement walls + bath | @altsurfaces
BBQ + fireplace | Decorative Concrete
There is a particular weight that comes to designing for the people you love.
The Bournian Residence is a home created for Director of Rise, Joel’s mother.
A project that sat outside the usual parameters of client and brief.
In its place, something harder to define and more important to get right.
The familiarity of family and the responsibility of permanence.
What followed was a home designed not around a programme, but around a life.
Textured masonry that weathers with the garden.
Openings placed for the light at a specific time of day.
A form that settles into its landscape rather than declaring itself upon it.
Architecture, at its most personal.
Architecture + Interiors | @risearch_au
Partnered with @abeyaustralia
Videographer | @thelocalproduction_
Builder | @exhibithomes
Landscape Designer | CG Gardens
Brick Supplier | @ahbricksnpavers
Floor Tiles | @urbanedgeceramics
Celebrating the completion of our William Street residence with those who made it possible.
A night of great people, beautiful spaces and proud moments.
PAULMARCS™
The kitchen at the Williams Residence is designed around the moment of gathering.
A large island bench anchors the space as both a functional and social centrepiece.
Set within a plan generous enough to let the room breathe, and tall enough to feel architectural rather than simply functional.
Architecture + Interiors | @risearch_au
