Located in the rolling green landscape of Victoria's 'Spa Country', an hours drive North of Melbourne, the Sheep House adopts an alternative reading of the Australian landscape; an architecture embedded firmly in the rich red earth becoming part of the land as opposed to the conventional idea of hovering above it.
The site is on a 100 acre property of undulating pasture adjacent to the 'Wombat State Forest', subdivided from a larger land holding but remaining as a small working sheep farm. Appearing as a line across the landscape, the house is essentially a long thin volume of accommodation opening to the North. Locked by two stone fireplaces, the building kinks at the Eastern end to orientate the occupants to the sunset. The deflection in plan also creates a sense of enclosure to the South defining an exterior 'room' of manufactured landscape captured from the paddock. The room contains a lawn circle and a gravel circle that counteract the linearity of the building but also impose a stiff geometry on the landscape.