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‘Touch the earth lightly’: the Australian home that floats above the landscape

Artist owner of iconic stilt-mounted 1980s Ball-Eastaway House near Sydney prepares to pass on custodianship

The house teaches you things, Lynne Eastaway says. Today, a choir of cicadas fill the scrub with a rhythm that rises and falls. On other days, there may be visits from birds, goannas, echidnas, wombats, wallabies and kangaroos.

“The bush ends, and the house begins,” she says. “You’re not the centre; you’re just part of it. That’s the thing you learn.

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May 14, 2026 Architecture Australia news Environment

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