Regional

Sustainable rural development seeks to utilise low impact design techniques to create minimal yet highly crafted spaces. Using a small palette of locally sourced materials which settle naturally into the surrounding landscape, there is a deep focus on connection with the environment and engendering a sense of companionship but also privacy. Of the principles that constitute sustainable regional development, using an efficient footprint to design and build a space that commemorates and gives back to the landscape for the long-term sits at the focal point.

Box of Tricks

Issue 70

Much has been written and said about Daylesford Longhouse. It’s all fascinating. But that’s not the half of it.

Materiality

Issue 70

Denison Rivulet by Taylor and Hinds Architects is a series of cabins north of Bicheno, Tasmania.

Set Sail

Issue 68

Spinnaker House embraces the coastal Queensland environment and invites occupants to take an active role in its daily function.

Of the Essence

Issue 68

Creating a small, graceful and sustainable home in Victoria’s Hepburn region was a brief that architect Adam Kane just couldn’t refuse.

The Natural Order

Issue 68

A site-sensitive and sophisticated family retreat serves as an off-grid base for bushland restoration.

Sand and Sensibility

Issue 68

When Fiona Leahy asked her cousin, Patrick Kennedy of Kennedy Nolan to design a multigenerational beach house on a challenging, bushy block at Sandy Point, the pair drew on a rich family history and shared aesthetic sensibility.

Immersed

Issue 68

An isolated Queensland retreat, like its owners, has the best interests of the local ecosystem at heart.

Renaissance Man

Issue 69

Environmental activist and florist Joost Bakker’s mission to eliminate waste continues to lead him to exciting new frontiers.

Hide-out

Issue 68

Crump Treehouse is the hang-out spot of our childhood dreams (and our adult ones, too, to be honest).

Vantage Point

Issue 67

A pared-back off-grid home on an exposed Kilmore ridgeline overlooking Mount Piper is a peaceful, sheltering retreat from which to relax and slowly regenerate degraded farmland.