Canberra Open Homes | Batten House
Architect | Ben Walker Architects
13 November 2026
Day + Time | Friday | 5.30 – 6.30pm
Location | 8 Champ Pl, Curtin ACT 2605
Entry | General Public Ticket $35 | AIA Members $28 | Craft + Design Canberra Members $28 | Bookings Essential
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Batten House is a new family home and studio in Curtin ACT adjacent to the Yarralumla Creek open space network. The project responds to its highly visible location next to a public cycle network, and to beautiful southern parkland views.
The response to the proximity of the cycleway and parkland resulted in provision of a centralised courtyard space, or buffer zone, that can be screened from the public realm by a series of operable screens. This allows the residents to select the levels of visual privacy desired at different times of the day and year. The house incorporates a reverse brick veneer construction system and high levels of internal thermal mass to passively regulate temperatures.
The use of dry pressed face brick, recycled hardwood cladding for walls, eaves and ceilings, honed concrete slabs and timber joinery provides a delightful textural palette.
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Ben Walker Architects (bwa) was established in 2012 by Ben Walker in Ainslie, ACT. The office was formed to explore a passion for considered and well detailed projects and conceptual research projects into the design of the city.
bwa has built projects within the ACT and NSW, including many that have received AIA awards over the past 12 years. All projects are undertaken with design rigour and exploration with a focus on buildability and sustainability in all decisions. bwa is committed to high quality design outcomes that respond to the nuances of individual client brief requirements.
bwa strives to produce well resolved, innovative and practical buildings and projects through rigorous response to client briefs and project conditions.
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