22/06/2026
Welcome to Elemental House |
Some houses sit on their site. This one was carved from it.
Elemental House is a four-year new build in Sydney’s eastern suburbs - a vertical journey from earth to sky, dense and grounded at its base, lifting through four levels until the uppermost floor floats at canopy height. It is a house that changes with the passage of light - never quite the same experience twice.
The design was anchored by a line from sculptor Giuseppe Penone: “The definition of art is the vitalisation of nature, revealing the vitality of the material.” Three ideas held the work together - human trace and nature, material expression, and the tension between organic and geometric form.
Living finishes are chosen to age, to mark, to carry memory. The bathrooms are jewel boxes: intimate, unexpected, each entirely their own. And at the home’s most earthbound points, two bespoke terrazzo panels - made by hand from stone off-cuts gathered across four years of construction - are set permanently into the floor. The family’s signature, built into the place where the house begins.
The result is not a home you settle into, but one that settles into you.
Featured on Vogue Living, article now live.
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