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"They are proud of the life they have built, and this home is testament to that,” says architect John Liu.

"The palette is fairly restrained for the most part, with strong links between the external expression of the house and its interior,

The architects devised a mechanical pulley system to lift the façade.

A twin bed that he designed anchors a flex room on the second floor.

Feldman Architecture opens up a dark and cramped seaside house with big windows and a healthy dose of wood.

The home features a combination of interior and exterior living spaces that afford privacy to the occupants. “There are social spaces for everyone to be together, but also spots outside the building where people can have a private coffee—and that’s so important,” says architect Line Solgaard.

"The curved surface of the west facade, with its ribs, visualises a gentle rhythm and softens the black building," says Sudo.

Studio GSBN carves a slice out of a Sydney home to fill its interior with sunshine.

In 2014, Jeff and Karen Gunning began researching building another house, hoping to create a single, contained volume without compromising their retirement funds. The resulting Tree House comprises three pitched volumes with cutaways to create a porch in phase one and recessed window planter ledges in phase two. Simple wood columns provide support.

The green roof, wood cladding, and low profile help to integrate the home with its lush, natural surroundings.

Madison points out that the pod concept would make it easy to add an extension if necessary. “We see it as a house that can grow with us—and that we can pay for as we go along.”

Dimensions X was founded in 2020 by entrepreneur Oscar Martin and architect Peter Stutchbury to answer one question: How can prefab housing be more site-responsive? Their answer is the modular cross-laminated timber OM-1, a roughly 600-square-foot cabin where everything from its dimensions to its envelope can be optimized and adjusted to better suit its environment, and its owner.