Pallasmaa

Within the folding hills of its hinterland site in Federal, Australia, this house by Edition Office was designed as an elemental respite from high-pressure professional life. Through the prospect and refuge relationship to its site, the home provides intimate proximity to the hillside, forest and grassland to the rear of the site, while framing a panoramic gaze across the distant horizon from deep within the heavily inset living platform. Ben Hosking From a distance the building is recessive, a shadow within the vast landscape, clad on all four facades and the fifth façade - being the roof -  with a highly textural outer skin of thick timber battens.  Ben Hosking The tightly controlled envelope contains modestly... More