[Image: Hermes Ad, ‘Dance with the Orange Ribbon’ circa 1997.]
In 1997, Hermes asked us to dance with the orange ribbon. An inspiring image of an almost electric string that interweaves and has such an ease in its means of encompassing all it surrounds and works through. It invites through its flimsy porosity, and yet quite ironically its definition itself divides. From this point we begin the discussion of the Bondi Beach Residential Project by Enter.
Bondi Residences in its most basic sense can be seen as a scheme about flow, transition and movement. It was investigated as such from the beginning seeking inspiration from the sand, surf and the organic Art Deco heritage of the area. The ribbon geometries skim the surface like a web, wrapping together, and yet through its porosity creating this contemporary (and yet very Art Deco) response to the tension between the exterior and interior environment connection.
The ribbons peel and merge effortlessly across the exterior, exposing at times, and protecting at others, the program it wraps within itself.
[Image: The Bondi Project - Rendering from the Glenayr and Warners Ave Intersection, Enter Architecture.]
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