With architect and landscape architect, a design-savvy client with a passion for bush regeneration has created something extraordinary along a tributary of Melbourne’s Birrarung.

A family project a decade in the making turns local housing conventions on their head, with an indoor-outdoor delight of vaulted pavilions and a 40-metre-long spine perfect for play.

Identifying rare Tasmanian Modernism, a client with an eye for detail gathers like minds to retain and extend a faded beauty.