Sunshine Coast

The Family Tree House is a set of architectural interventions grafted onto a remnant coastal character house.  There is a family lineage to the house, it has been our Client’s Grandmother’s place and in turn his mother’s home. At its core was a humble one-bedroom hardwood framed cottage with an enclosed verandah wrapping along its eastern and northern edges. Accompanying and protecting the house is a colossal Weeping Fig planted generations ago, it has been climbed by our Client and his siblings as children and his own 3 boys whilst the family gathered beneath its boughs in the coolth of its shade. Christopher Frederick Jones Our site strategy is one of respect and retention, with the architecture aspiring to c... More