project - narra bakulla autonomous house project team - tone wheeler, marr grounds, jan o'connor builder - julian barlow structural engineer - o'hearn consulting - matthew o'hearn landscape architect - sue barnsley design landscaper - robyn barlow
two fully self sufficient houses and studios for a retiring artist and visiting friends deep in the spotted gum forest of the far south coast. the single depth habitable rooms, grouped in modules, face north along a contour line, with service pods behind. courtyards between each module and porches at the ends, the rooms have no internal corridor but rather a traditional circulation veranda on the south. a butterfly roof: tilted up for the passive solar to the north and sloping back for the active uses on the south: pv panels and solar water heating. assembled rather than built from factory made wall roof and door panels, with no on site painting or finishing, the houses are one of a continuing series of explorations by environa of the economic factory made house, drawing on the traditions of the traditional aussie bush shed.
