Located in Narrabundah, a postwar suburb in Canberra’s inner south, this family home is framed by pin oaks and offers distant views of a eucalypt forest. For the owners – a builder, his wife and their young child – demolishing the existing 1950s cottage and building anew offered the opportunity to capitalise on the outlook and hero building robust, tactile materials such as precast concrete, aluminium, steel and raw brick.
Given the slope of the land – a fall of about 3 metres from the
