A quiet response

Sitting gently in the landscape, Nielsen Jenkins’ architecture takes a slow deep breath that clears the visual clutter to deliver a breathtaking view.

GILLIAN SERISIER

Beautifully realised as a horizontal response to the towering gum trees, Toowoomba House is very much a testament to living in good design. For Morgan Jenkins, Nielsen Jenkins’ principal, the joy of architecture lies in working through the site’s natural position and situation, which is then overlaid with the needs and requirements of the client. In this case those of a professional couple, both doctors, who had recently returned to Toowoomba, but had been living in a small dark home. “They wanted it to be warm and protected but also connected to the outside with more generous openings and exposure to daylight,” says Jenkins, who is friends with both. Located on the sloping rise of the escarpment overlooking Lockyer Valley, but surrounded by large houses, Nielsen Jenkins’ starting point was…

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