Antipodean cocoon: this unusual holiday house in the Australian bush is a lyrical yet highly practical response to site and climate.(Ar House)

From: The Architectural Review | Date: September 1, 2003 | Copyright information

Seen from afar, this extraordinary holiday house looks like a Zeppelin crash-landed in the Australian bush. Clinging to a precipitous slope, the curved capsule seems improbably fragile, like a giant insect cocoon lodged among the trees. Designed by the Melbourne-based architect/artist partnership of Michael Bellemo and Cat MacLeod for their own recreational use, the house is a surreal presence in the thickly wooded coastal landscape of south-west Victoria. Holiday homes abound in t...

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