Wallagoot House
Djiringanj Country
(Under Construction)
A house for a family, workshop for a knifemaker, office for an architect and garden for produce. The regeneration of a degraded paddock.
The external skin of Wallagoot House is pulled away from its internal structure, opening up space between the conditioned areas, the living, kitchen and bedrooms, and the uncontrollable climate outside.
The skin provides shade in summer and protection from winds in winter and the space between is activated by being the hallway, the dining room, the services court, the study, the clothes line, the garage, the productive garden, the garden shed, the play area, the bike store, the laundry, the list goes on. The internal spaces are, thus, able to be the bare minimum. Somewhere to cook, to hang when the weather is extreme outside, somewhere to get changed, to sleep and not too much more.
The idea is unconventional, although not new, with many similar examples both here, in Australia, and overseas.
But, the build itself is as standard as it gets, a kit shed over timber framed rooms, in the hope that this approach may contribute to a change in thinking about how we might build better futures on a budget.
