TWO SHEDS BY DREAMER WITH ROGER NELSON

This is a house underscored by dualities. Some are born of the design, others are the product of an intriguing journey the client and architect both undertook. The site for the house – a coastal getaway on a 25-hectare, rurally zoned parcel of land high above the Lorne foreshore – was purchased by a director of one of Melbourne’s larger architectural practices. After seven years on the drawing board and with a 700-square-metre house proposed (coupled with some serious budget concerns), the project came to Ben Shields of Dreamer. The project now had two architects.