Sitting on the steep banks of Edgars Creek, this house is raw and elemental. It is simple and honest
in its approach to siting and planning.
The home is broken down into three elements/three pavilions. One for sleeping, one for bathing, one
for living. They frame a central courtyard, and they frame the view to the west through a tall stand
of Ironbark trees, and onto the meandering creek beyond. Each pavilion is connected to the
landscape, to the view, to the creek.
The materiality of the house responds to its bushland context. A rammed earth wall shields the south
of the house, and talks to the sandstone cliffs of the creek below. The pavilions sit among the
Ironbark trees and are clad in raw Ironbark themselves.
Edgars Creek House is all about a connection to nature. This home is about the country and the
landscape in which it exists, and offers a way to live as part of that system rather than trying to
preside over it.
