The Longhouse - Victoria

Winner of Australian House of the Year at the 2019 Houses Awards, it’s no surprise that Daylesford Longhouse is an endearing building. A boutique farm, garden kitchen, cooking school, reception venue and a home consolidated within a single 110 l/m metre shed, clad almost entirely in Wonderglas GC.

Set minutes from the idyllic town of Daylesford in central Victoria, the elevated property looks out over vast plains and bushland across Daylesford, Hepburn Springs and Mt Franklin. Revitalising the pastoral shed of yester year, the industrial structure sits on minimal footings with a gravel floor. The Longhouse is built to passive house standards with very few heating and cooling inputs and provision for solar panelling and battery storage.

An indoor garden oasis flourishes within the shed’s Wonderglas GC translucent glassreinforced polyester skin. The Wonderglas GC with various tints optimise solar penetration and shading depending on the orientation of each façade and roof plane.

The Longhouse’s uniqueness is a featured build on Grand Designs Australia – “This gigantic farm shed is also an indoor garden oasis” series 7 episode 10.

Project Details:

• Product: Wonderglas GC – Supersix Profile
• Quantity: 1500m2
• City: Daylesford, Victoria
• Year: 2011
• Designer: Donovan Hill