(COUNTRY) Bundjalung
DFJ Architects has completed a new phase in the multistage development of Habitat on the industrial outskirts of Byron Bay. In an earlier issue of Architecture Australia (September/October 2021), I considered its first, three-stage suite of completed elements. The newly completed fourth stage – a standalone set of interconnected blocks named 5 Easy Street – extends along the centre of the Habitat village site and sits in productive tension with the project’s earliest intentions.
Habitat has, to date, largely been realized according to the first masterplan conceived by the client in conversation with architect and urbanist
