Dream Build Season 2, Episode 5: Cocoon House

Rolling Cubes

Shane Hendriks, a builder & designer, took an idea from his son's building blocks and built a house of five cubes. Arranged in an ark to maximise the northerly aspect of the sun, it has a sense of rolling, tumbling movement.

8 min

Inner House

What do you do with a heritage-listed church, where the heritage requirements dictate that nothing of the new structure can touch the walls of the heritage-listed building? You build an inner house.

8 min

Marimekko

Marimekko House is a home for a family of five busy adults. While quite modest in size the house features bold design incorporating landscaping, courtyards and a rooftop garden to create multiple light-filled living spaces.

8 min

Flipped House

A house which draws on the joy of 60's designs and the mid 20th century modernism style's love of natural products.

8 min

Jilliby House

Americans Mickey and Lanie Clark have built a remarkable bushland home after a two-year work trip turned into a 20 year love affair with the Australian landscape.

7 min

Black Box

The owner of The Black Box is a self-confessed "boy from the 'burbs" who wanted to make his architectural mark - in the suburbs.

Angophora House

Richard Cole is an architect with over twenty years' experience and he seems to specialise in building magnificent homes in impossible locations!

8 min

Stringybark House

Owners and husband/wife team Justin Lindsell and Helen McBeth wanted to fulfil a lifelong dream of owning a glass pavilion pole home in the picturesque town of Crafers in the Adelaide Hills.

8 min

Wheatsheaf House

Architect Jesse Judd designed this beautiful and engaging holiday lodge for his own family.

7 min

Runaway Bay

The Stone Age collides with the Space Age in this Dream Build home at Runaway Bay on the Gold Coast.

7 min

Model House

Sitting in a streetscape of Victorian style cottages typical of Melbourne, Model House doesn't stand out - and that's the point of the design for this new modern home.

8 min

Link House

Built on the site of the owner's childhood home, 'Link House' is house designed to last.

8 min

House House

When one family bought two neighbouring houses with both houses in need of repair & update, a novel solution to their restoration was found; to create a single building but with separate living spaces.

7 min

Graffiti House

It would usually be a TV disaster: on the day before filming began, spray-paint vandals "tagged" a home being profiled by Dream Build in Fitzroy.

8 min

Wolf House

The Wolf House is designed by an architect who loves his family, his Star Wars collection and his classic cars - and it certainly shows in the design of his new dream home.

8 min