GLENLUCE
Designers Michael Wright and Catherine Rush (Rush Wright Associates). Location Glenluce, Victoria, Australia.
Catherine Rush and Michael Wright are founding directors of Melbourne-based landscape architecture firm Rush Wright Associates. Each with over 30 years of experience in the field, they lead a team of 15 landscape architects.
Their weekend home in Glenluce, northwest of Melbourne, experiences extreme climatic conditions: hot summers, prolonged droughts, and regular bushfires. In front of the tiny, west-facing house, helped by their friend, fellow landscape architect Thomas Gooch, they created and built a garden inspired by the wind-shaped dunes of Wyperfeld National Park, western Victoria. Finger-shaped, slightly mounded planting areas, reminiscent of the dunes, are interspersed with elongated, sandcovered
