Part of Babylonia is buried beneath its own garden.
Designed by FMD Architects in northeastern Melbourne, Australia, the house uses a steeply sloping site to create a sequence of very different spaces. Some rooms are tucked into the ground, while others open onto terraced gardens and rise toward the existing eucalyptus trees.
Concrete walls extend from the interiors into the landscape, courtyards bring daylight into the lower level, and even the roof changes shape to make room for the trees already growing on the site.
Rather than flattening the land to accommodate the house, Babylonia uses the slope itself to shape the way the home is experienced.
Architects: FMD Architects
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Area: 928 sqm
Year: 2026
Photographs: Peter Bennetts
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