The Farm
WONGARRA
Perched on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road, The Farm engages with a sweeping 360-degree panorama of ocean, coastline, bush, and hinterland.
Every primary space is framed to claim a view, from the ocean-facing bedroom to the winter-lit hallway revealing a seasonal waterfall.
Organized around an augmented C-shape, the plan choreographs a journey through the house: a measured procession down a long hallway leads to the main pavilion, where kitchen, living, and dining converge in a three-and-a-half-sided viewport—an observatory for light, weather, and the ever-changing landscape.
An exhaustive site study informed orientation, materiality, and structure,
responding to the forces of the Southern Ocean.
The site was riddled with highly sensitive planning overlays, making approval a considerable challenge
Robust and grounded, the house reads as a natural extension of its site. Barely visible from the Great Ocean Road, it inhabits its context with quiet authority: not on it, not in it, but entirely of it.
