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    Easy Street DFJ Architects

    Aug 29, 2021 5 minutes

    Built on the land of the Arakwal people of the Bundjalung nation

    While the first phase of Habitat – a sustainable mixed-use “village” on the industrial outskirts of Byron Bay – came to fruition in 2017, the project was, in a sense, already some decades old. With this village, developer Brandon Saul (the entrepreneur who founded the Falls Festival) realized an idea that had been codified in local council zoning well before he purchased the land, shortly after the new millennium. The concept had benefitted from scoping visits to Scandinavia and early thinking by architect Rod Simpson around how to proceed.

    Easy Street, the third stage of five in the village development, is built to the design of local practice DFJ Architects, which is headed by Dominic Finlay-Jones, an alumnus

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