The engawa and verandah celebrate the transition between the outside and interior of traditional Japanese and Australian houses, mediating and enriching the relationship between humanity and nature. They offer a balance between prospect and refuge and moderate seasonal and climatic changes within the home.

Australia House explores the threshold as a metaphor for a point of beginning, embracing the landscape of its site. Suspended within space while also grounded, it offers a place of refuge and prospect innately connected to its changing landscape. It provides a marked pause - a moment of creative possibility from which new understandings can grow, new perspectives can form and new beginnings contemplated.