For architect Josh Crosbie, a home should be a reflection of its owners’ personalities. Crosbie applied this same philosophy when it came to dreaming up his own family home, which includes a treehouse designed by Crosbie himself. The architect has had a lifelong fascination with treehouses – the natural kind, not the “American” kind – and spent years researching and writing a thesis on treehouses around the world.
“I’ve rock-climbed pretty much all my life, and mountaineered,” says Crosbie. “I’ve got such an appreciation for big, beautiful trees, and some of the cultures around the world that actually live in trees – like in Papua New Guinea, the Korowai tribe still to this day live up in the tops of these massive trees that are over 50 metres high. I would drop everything in a heartbeat, to be honest, and take the whole family over there and live that simple kind of lifestyle.”