• The River Rocks house is a set of contradictions and paradoxes, but never compromises. It is minimal, yet monumental, integrating both raw and highly refined components (“steel columns, glass, soil and rocks [are] used in their raw forms”). And, while it may seem at first to stand apart from its landscape, the connections are deeply set, says its Victorian-based architect, David Luck.
The house is an homage to David’s past. He grew up in the outer suburbs of Launceston, just to the south of this site, and although having moved away, never lost respect for, or connections with, the region. As a child, he spent time on a local family farm, and always remembered seeing odd houses along this reach of the river. He was “bewitched by these modernist…
