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CLOUD COTTAGE BY TAKT STUDIO

As you weave through the flat residential grid of streets in Bowral, a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, a pattern emerges. Front gardens are populated with hedges, picket fences, decorative gates, garage doors and, generally, a flowering European tree centred in a very green lawn. These gardens seem to be a polite layer of defence that offers no clues about the private spaces that lie beyond the curtains of the house facades.

Cloud Cottage by Takt Studio is therefore a little disarming on first approach. In place of a front fence, there is instead an

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