Traditional Land Owners: Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin nation

Notions of home are as much a projection of our dreams and memories as they are the bricks and linen cupboards that anchor them. Tangled in the sheets of inner-urban Melbourne, Arcadia is a fever dream of pastoral histories. Shafts of light lend weight to rustic walls; burnt-out chimneys dot the landscape; distant views draw the eye; inside and out, the house is ablush with the perpetual hue of an early rise and an early rest.

Garden spaces draw the eye through the house and into the landscape. A generous central spine connects a loose arrangement of indoor and outdoor spaces to retreat, gather, study, eat and relax. Courtyard windows and skylights animate the house with ever-shifting light, lending it a sense of the outdoors. Materials throughout were chosen for their modesty and tactility, changing with time: oiled timber, raw concrete, galvanized steel, bagged brick with a subtle pink pigment.