THE LONGHOUSE
Big enough and protected enough for the landscape to flourish, inside.
The Longhouse reconciles the desire of its owners to establish a boutique farm, cooking school, reception venue and home with an existing property holding in Daylesford, Victoria. Initial site investigations revealed a local population of grazing fauna, hostile weather conditions, sporadic rainfall and shallow planting depths.
The farm’s various agricultural and hospitality activities are consolidated in a single 110m long mannered shed. The internalized productive landscape is afforded protection from the locale’s hostility, rainfall is harvested and stored to ensure regular supply.
2019 The Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture - Houses (New)
2019 Australian House of the Year, Houses Awards
Daylesford Longhouse is located in Elevated Plains, Victoria, on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung people of the Kulin nation.
Photographs by Rory Gardiner