HOLLOW TREE HOUSE BY CORE COLLECTIVE ARCHITECTS

The 1830s in rural Tasmania was a harsh and often dangerous time. Colonial houses were built in an unfamiliar landscape as a frontier war was being waged against the original owners of the land, the Tasmanian Indigenous people, while bushrangers roamed between outposts. The current owners of Strathborough may not have had this difficult history at the front of their minds when they bought the property three years ago but, after several years of slow, careful work, it has become part of their way of thinking about this place