Yarra Valley Home

Set within a quiet, tree-lined rural landscape, the design is conceived as a landscape-led composition where built form acts as a framework for a sequence of outdoor rooms.

The landscape strategy establishes a clear progression from arrival spaces to sheltered garden rooms and more open pastoral edges. These spaces are the primary organising structure of the project, with architecture positioned to reinforce rather than dominate the ground plane. Movement through the site is guided by framed views, filtered outlooks and shifting planting conditions.

A restrained material palette of dark brick, steel and glazing is softened by a dominant landscape response, where planting becomes the key expressive element. Vegetation is used to mediate scale, blur edges and reinforce seasonal change, allowing the landscape to read as the primary character of the site.

At the centre, a courtyard garden forms the heart of the scheme, providing a sheltered outdoor room for arrival and retreat. Beyond this, the landscape opens into broader rural views, transitioning from structured garden spaces to a looser, pastoral setting.

This is a home garden shaped by landscape, one that prioritises connection to place, clarity of form and the enduring qualities of material and planting.