Situated on the fringe of Don Valley in Victoria, this modest holiday home quietly asserts itself within a pastoral landscape of sweeping grazing fields and distant views to the northern mountain ranges.
Set within the dense, towering canopy of Gembrook’s mountain ash forests, this new three-bedroom residence replaces a modest weatherboard house with a contemporary home tailored to the needs of a growing family.
Set in a remote woodland and subject to extreme weather year-round, the brief called for a cost-effective, functional structure that could withstand the challenges of the landscape while providing essential comfort.
At a time when Australia faces an escalating housing crisis, with affordability at historic lows and homelessness on the rise, this crisis housing pod emerges as a timely and dignified architectural response.
