The Shoreham house by Daryl Jackson was completed in 1977.
Tim Jackson writes: “The siting was extraordinary. Finding an incidental dip in the topography for the footprint enabled two bridge links to pivot off an ancient white ghost gum, directing you inside to a first-floor platform – suspended above the valley below. It’s the house we all live his design thinking in. Resolved in section, it is like walking into a freehand drawn diagram that has come to life.”
Why the rearing ghostly horse? In the wintertime, the Jacksons were avid equestrians, riding for Main Ridge Pony Club where Daryl became President, and wrote the monthly Pony Club newsletter.
To celebrate the remarkable life and work of Daryl Jackson AO, a public memorial service will be held at 2pm on June 3rd in the MCG Members Dining Room. Registration of attendance is not necessary but helpful, see registration email on Linktree.
Photograph by John Gollings.