A playful collaboration between MRTN Architects, SBLA Studio and a client with strong views and unconventional needs has created a restorative take on the contemporary farmhouse.

With architect and landscape architect, a design-savvy client with a passion for bush regeneration has created something extraordinary along a tributary of Melbourne’s Birrarung.

A family project a decade in the making turns local housing conventions on their head, with an indoor-outdoor delight of vaulted pavilions and a 40-metre-long spine perfect for play.