POINCIANA HOUSE BY NIELSEN JENKINS
Poinciana House, situated in Brisbane’s inner south, is Nielsen Jenkins’s trans-formative reworking of an Edwardian timber bungalow that orchestrates the experience of a scenic location into the patterns of daily life.
The bungalow’s east-facing street frontage addresses a calm pocket of street enriched by significant landscape trees. The spreading shade of a mature poinciana, the house’s namesake, creates dappled patterns across the footpath. The site falls away from the street and, in this direction, the distant prospect is to the western ranges, glimpsed through tall trees that reach up from the gully behind the house.
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