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Architects: Benn & Penna Architects
- Year: 2013
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Photographs:Tom Ferguson
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“A tiny house, like a tiny temple, can be a perfect work of art” - Marion Mahony Griffin
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The design is for a new home-office pavilion alongside two existing pavilions on a remote rural property three hours drive south of Sydney.
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The new building is part of a set of three free standing pavilions that each contain the functions of sleeping, living and working a configuration reflecting a harmonious life-cycle balance that is interwoven into its natural environment.
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The pavilions are loosely arranged alongside one another at the base of a natural amphitheatre formed by the tower sandstone cliffs of the Barragorang Valley.
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On approach the pavilions appear like a small farming community, clad entirely in non-combustible metal sheeting and carefully resolved to protect against its unsuspectingly deadly environment.