https://antarc.com.au antarc.com.au Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:55:18 +0000 https://antarc.com.au en https://antarc.com.au/Ningaloo Thu, 13 Jul 2023 02:06:06 +0000 antarc.com.au https://antarc.com.au/Ningaloo ︎WHEATBELT OBSERVATORIES RELEVANT WORK&nbsp;︎RESEARCH&nbsp;︎LIBRARY ︎CONCEPT DESIGN ︎NINGALOO, WESTERN AUSTRALIA This is an Eco lodge for Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia organised around a dense courtyard and a perforated mass wall. On a remote and fragile landscape, we entered into the question of how to experience and interact with that landscape in a meaningful and sustainable way. Our first move was to severely limit the footprint and create an intense and contained courtyard which acts as circulation and organiser for the building. It also contains the services of the building, from elevated water tanks to photovoltaic trees.The outside perimeter ring wall is massive and contains a sharp distinction between the interior and landscape. This contrast between the delicacy of its landscape and the mass of its building is present in WA traditions such as John Hawes’ massive Romanesque, and paradoxically present in Ivanoff’s sculptural concrete block.There is no pretense at touching the earth lightly, rather an aim of managing the incursion on the land, strictly defining its limit. The experience is urbane on one hand and singularly isolated on the other. This is a building made in town and assembled on site. Its concrete skin is composed of 44 panels 3.3m wide cast from a single form, with variation in their perforations. Other components can be brought to site lined and fitted out, assembled and finished in place. <img width="900" height="424" width_o="900" height_o="424" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9dca388fa81abacd6f68eb3e288b1c775a6bef4cf733f4d9d9f7c254e17c4416/Ningaloo_4_o.jpg" data-mid="184926441" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/9dca388fa81abacd6f68eb3e288b1c775a6bef4cf733f4d9d9f7c254e17c4416/Ningaloo_4_o.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7869876dc2bc866fabb848c8d62498e798172cd594682a555bf2c28b353f0be3/Ningaloo_0_o.jpg" data-mid="184926439" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/7869876dc2bc866fabb848c8d62498e798172cd594682a555bf2c28b353f0be3/Ningaloo_0_o.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af18c08d5af8dfa6e2a0b7ad26f9c39429b05bcd140ee08fcf89f5c589e0d106/Ningaloo_3_o.jpg" data-mid="184926432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/af18c08d5af8dfa6e2a0b7ad26f9c39429b05bcd140ee08fcf89f5c589e0d106/Ningaloo_3_o.jpg" /><img width="900" height="335" width_o="900" height_o="335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79752975186af6e2df5aa109edfe1a05797899ea724fbbc5814ede67d75b99bc/Ningaloo_1_o.jpg" data-mid="184926434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/79752975186af6e2df5aa109edfe1a05797899ea724fbbc5814ede67d75b99bc/Ningaloo_1_o.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="334" width_o="900" height_o="334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/079a08fc4481894a3c0bac575f515c80fb71fc0804251af5ff7e34c6b5ea2a6b/Ningaloo_2_o.jpg" data-mid="184926438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/079a08fc4481894a3c0bac575f515c80fb71fc0804251af5ff7e34c6b5ea2a6b/Ningaloo_2_o.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa570959e2d53ff7d1323839212220a99a019970646e7ad2ac7e6fecda7d292f/Ningaloo_9_o.jpg" data-mid="184926442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/fa570959e2d53ff7d1323839212220a99a019970646e7ad2ac7e6fecda7d292f/Ningaloo_9_o.jpg" /> https://antarc.com.au/Capithetical Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:26:57 +0000 antarc.com.au https://antarc.com.au/Capithetical ︎WHEATBELT OBSERVATORIES RELEVANT WORK ︎RESEARCH&nbsp; 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ANTARCTICA’S 2022 proposition, Understorey, is a nursery story: a story of ambiguous horizons, non-human biology and a distributed, extended object life. This is a pavilion for propagation: a hovering nursery designed to be donated and dispersed into the community environment after its short NGV life. The engineered timber grid, carrying more than nine thousand biodegradable tube stock seedlings, creates a dappled shaded understorey: a cool and compressed architectural space from which to look up at the coir cones above. Slowly transforming itself through its exhibition life, the canopy grows a fringe to be later planted elsewhere for a far longer life. The ambiguous horizon of the wooden structure sets a new datum - at eye height visible across the roof plane of green shoots and experienced underneath from reflections in polished platforms: from a chair, or from a child’s eyes. Understorey’s complexity is biological and optical; its architectural form is deliberately simple. <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81542df891f59dce44a5bee90f8d9ec156fc2e543cf7827874ea36c6ff8f447a/Understorey_View08.jpg" data-mid="184303485" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81542df891f59dce44a5bee90f8d9ec156fc2e543cf7827874ea36c6ff8f447a/Understorey_View08.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3495b902a5513c8a5f11bfbb6ad984bd9f7d4e299cca6896e6609ddf4492f28f/Understorey_View04.jpg" data-mid="184303483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3495b902a5513c8a5f11bfbb6ad984bd9f7d4e299cca6896e6609ddf4492f28f/Understorey_View04.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c147de183acb32218e86fca06762659c161662c77a74f8c4585cf7875f3071bb/Understorey_View02.jpg" data-mid="184303489" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c147de183acb32218e86fca06762659c161662c77a74f8c4585cf7875f3071bb/Understorey_View02.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb83d27a71d1d782663d36d3a2600440186448aca6c963ca10dc41bfe2832089/Understorey_View07.jpg" data-mid="184303481" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb83d27a71d1d782663d36d3a2600440186448aca6c963ca10dc41bfe2832089/Understorey_View07.jpg" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10ed0f2484bd0c12be4a5420486a57f225146fab5ced88a485bb43bf0ef6917f/Understorey_View05.jpg" data-mid="184303486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10ed0f2484bd0c12be4a5420486a57f225146fab5ced88a485bb43bf0ef6917f/Understorey_View05.jpg" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70f03b5a72195d85cd7e2aeb4e6e2003d3b7d8122a510134d8cfc25058d510d2/Understorey_View06.jpg" data-mid="184303488" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70f03b5a72195d85cd7e2aeb4e6e2003d3b7d8122a510134d8cfc25058d510d2/Understorey_View06.jpg" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe9e7b86b9640886d46561bdba5782afcc572a54d7a652939475cde5e72d6cf3/Understorey_View03.jpg" data-mid="184303482" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe9e7b86b9640886d46561bdba5782afcc572a54d7a652939475cde5e72d6cf3/Understorey_View03.jpg" /> &gt; SEE OUR PREVIOUS SUBMISSIONS IN THIS PROJECT PAMPHLET https://antarc.com.au/NGV-Pavilion-19 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:55:18 +0000 antarc.com.au https://antarc.com.au/NGV-Pavilion-19 ︎WHEATBELT OBSERVATORIES RELEVANT WORK ︎RESEARCH ︎COMPETITIONS ︎NGV PAVILION 2019 NGVV1.1 A field of poles: dispersed through the whole garden: a city of small towers: a sketch for a large room: a virtual map of Victoria. There is an pole object for each of the seventy nine local shires of Victoria; one for each of the platforms of the vline network. Together they interact with the varied objects of the garden, even at its edge, and draw them into a map. Together they cluster in the view, are assembled in the brain, and are experienced close up through a walk through the whole space. The proposition for architecture is that it maps space through points; infers space by objects, but is not an object. And in this case, acknowledges all of Victoria, so dominated by one large city. Imagined as a 1:8000 model, each object one day returned to its inferred location would form the world’s largest piece of conceptual/land art. <img width="1772" height="922" width_o="1772" height_o="922" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/709f230ebe033a9b094756974c031bf76bb011ccf4aae35865867df443c10ec5/NGV-blue-poles_3of4-copy.jpg" data-mid="252778728" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/709f230ebe033a9b094756974c031bf76bb011ccf4aae35865867df443c10ec5/NGV-blue-poles_3of4-copy.jpg" /> NGVV.1.1 is simultaneously: A virtual or conceptual Map of Victoria; an Urban Landscape of Towers; a single Architectural Space inferred by Columns. Virtual Victoria: We placed an abstracted map of Victoria on the garden, at roughly 1:8000, to set out a field of points. We aim to acknowledge the edge of Victoria and the edge of the Garden, and spread out to its full extent. Just as the 2016 pavilion acknowledged the periphery of Melbourne in the NGV, the periphery of Victorian territory is marked in its represented centre. Each of the 79 municipalities of Victoria is marked with a point and a pole; a survey pin. The seven lines of the Vline network are similarly sketched out and each station marked with a plinth. The points in the garden are joined with a network of ground markers; reflective discs between the poles; planted grass strips between the vline plinths. We imagine the possibility of de-installing the piece from the NGV and the placement of its objects in their inferred place – spreading them across Victoria, and making an enormous conceptual land art sculpture. Urban Landscape of Towers: The design makes a landscape of small towers; a miniature city, seen against a backdrop of Southbank towers, of the Arts Centre Spire, of 101 Collins Street, each visible from the garden. This field conceptually joins up the field of objects already in the garden creating chance interactions with them. A network of trees; of ground lights of sculptures. The poles appear beside artworks; in the arbour; between trees and on paving, drawing these elements into the composition, and offering a place to sit at odd locations. The abstracted field is experienced as a forest, adding to the trees, at its most dense near its centre, but still planted near its outer edges. Illuminated at night the field of poles reads as a constellation of points of light seen from above in the many elevated viewpoints surrounding it. Architectural Space of Columns: Imagined as an architectural space, this is a large room without a roof, defined by its columns and one hundred metres long at its points, and five metres high at its springing point. In addition to the shire poles, the twelve columns of the NGV Great Hall are inserted into the composition at 1:1; a scaling reference for the great room. Seven of the twelve absorb a shire pole; an extra five make up the dozen. The ceiling is lightly sketched out onto the bluestone, as a shadow It asserts architecture as a tool which defines space through a composition of objects. This is a thinned interior, with the barest of objects and perhaps never visible from a single gaze, but only ever assembled mentally. It asks the question of architecture; how little do you need to infer space? How thinly can we define an architectural environment? <img width="1772" height="1106" width_o="1772" height_o="1106" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9258920925a5c31cdc247bff53e3ef8a3409bd9042eb957ac3c623f817958c56/NGV-blue-poles_1of4-copy.jpg" data-mid="252778727" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9258920925a5c31cdc247bff53e3ef8a3409bd9042eb957ac3c623f817958c56/NGV-blue-poles_1of4-copy.jpg" /><img width="4794" height="1886" width_o="4794" height_o="1886" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c250ec62e07003b73df17869d632dab2222bc57993e40a6dea8d36d7bb31c445/179_2of4.jpeg" data-mid="252778731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c250ec62e07003b73df17869d632dab2222bc57993e40a6dea8d36d7bb31c445/179_2of4.jpeg" /> &gt; SEE OUR PREVIOUS SUBMISSIONS IN THIS PROJECT PAMPHLET https://antarc.com.au/Drysdale-Library Mon, 07 Jun 2021 23:32:57 +0000 antarc.com.au https://antarc.com.au/Drysdale-Library ︎WHEATBELT OBSERVATORIES RELEVANT WORK ︎PUBLIC ︎BORONGGOOK DRYSDALE LIBRARY , WATHAURONG LAND ANTARCTICA with ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATES is currently working with the City of Greater Geelong on the Drysdale Library.The project is a high quality community building with high performance environmental sustainable design and is part of the City of Geelong’s UNESCO design city accreditation program.The building form is conceived as a gathering place and ANTARCTICA and Architecture Associates have engaged with the local Wathaurong community looking at gathering places throughout the Wadawurrung culture in its development. The roof top landscape is envisioned as an expansion of the library and incorporates local and indigenous botanical elements, whilst also engaging with the park and main street and referencing the nearby Macleod’s waterhole. The brickwork facade draws upon the material history of Drysdale and the greater Bellarine Peninsula.The new building allows for an increase in Library and Council services due to the expanded footprint and co-location of services to create an active community use building.Other sustainability initiatives currently being explored are:&gt; sustainable water management, including collection PV solar array;&gt; passive ventilation and option for mixed mode spaces;&gt; shading to public space, and a resilient building;&gt; reduction of heat island affect through planted roof. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b35a735b483a8c2e1e0a05bada8de23c90e5b13ea20c53a858e9bd0bad3e0eeb/230828-Drysdale-Library-0867.jpg" data-mid="189778863" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b35a735b483a8c2e1e0a05bada8de23c90e5b13ea20c53a858e9bd0bad3e0eeb/230828-Drysdale-Library-0867.jpg" /> &gt; FLICK THROUGH OUR PROJECT PAMPHLET https://antarc.com.au/Solaris-Solar-Wind-Tower Thu, 13 Jul 2023 02:33:05 +0000 antarc.com.au https://antarc.com.au/Solaris-Solar-Wind-Tower ︎WHEATBELT OBSERVATORIES RELEVANT WORK&nbsp; &nbsp; ︎RESEARCH ︎SOLARIS SOLAR WIND TOWER <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34023732e0aa4b49aa1c28b74a18f8fd7d8f6cbe641be27b66544202f33a85ce/SolarisTowerWeb_01_o.jpg" data-mid="184927918" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34023732e0aa4b49aa1c28b74a18f8fd7d8f6cbe641be27b66544202f33a85ce/SolarisTowerWeb_01_o.jpg" /><img width="1200" height="800" 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It was built on a tiny budget and short time program, with the room intended to operate for twelve weeks over summer, after which time it will be reconstructed and recycled. The structure is made from a custom folded super lightweight steel system holding a skin of encapsulated straw bale, form ply and a flexible clear acrylic curtain, as well as screens of wild strawberries stacked vertically in florists’ crates. It was both bar and café which, peeped out to Flinders Street, that the made the roof accessible from above. This simple architectural gesture aimed its effect at the juxtaposition with the highly wrought geometry all around it, and from the sense that this is either a prototype for a permanent kit, or a piece of circus. It is an argument about a different set of values from Federation Square; a different idea of the city, and one that is complimentary to it.This little building embodies a position toward the `ecological’ which is ephemeral and adaptable; low tech but not crafty. It straddles the slightly tired debate between the technological and the folk. 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REVIEW OUR SUSTAINABILITY ACTION PLAN https://antarc.com.au/Warburton-Rail-Trail Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:27:47 +0000 antarc.com.au https://antarc.com.au/Warburton-Rail-Trail ︎WHEATBELT OBSERVATORIES RELEVANT WORK ︎PUBLICATIONS ︎2008 ︎ ABUNDANT: VENICE BIENNALE CATALOGUE 2008 WARBURTON BRIDGE <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e470045d278ae8450c0f6002cd3cb1015f3095da322bb73beda2a7083a602690/warbutyon-aa-p9495.jpg" data-mid="184279108" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/e470045d278ae8450c0f6002cd3cb1015f3095da322bb73beda2a7083a602690/warbutyon-aa-p9495.jpg" /><img width="2444" height="3133" width_o="2444" height_o="3133" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/199c87acf2d85878c90cdd952a8c4b7acea9135ab7715661159b6aa7321b1b4c/warburton-trail-bridge-model.jpg" data-mid="184279102" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/199c87acf2d85878c90cdd952a8c4b7acea9135ab7715661159b6aa7321b1b4c/warburton-trail-bridge-model.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d32dfe8b90799452438d61e83977b43a9ef6dd4235b17307cde403245a76ffb3/warburton-aa-intro--cover-web.jpg" data-mid="184279106" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/d32dfe8b90799452438d61e83977b43a9ef6dd4235b17307cde403245a76ffb3/warburton-aa-intro--cover-web.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/972137afdd2fa0cc8abf7ad3e7786732f74155867fda7b8d207672fb26d289d2/warburton-venice-gallery.jpg" data-mid="184279103" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/972137afdd2fa0cc8abf7ad3e7786732f74155867fda7b8d207672fb26d289d2/warburton-venice-gallery.jpg" /> https://antarc.com.au/Kokoda-Track-Memorial Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:19:13 +0000 antarc.com.au https://antarc.com.au/Kokoda-Track-Memorial ︎PROJECTS ︎PUBLIC ︎COMPLETED ︎FERNTREE GULLY, WURUNDJERI COUNTRY Antarctica in collaboration with Michael Smith and Associates designed a storyboard shelter and surrounding landscape in the Kokoda Track Memorial Park in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria. The design features a semi-circular shelter with a series of information panels giving an insight into 1942 life in Papua (now known as Papua New Guinea). Polycarbonate roofing ensures ample light to the panels while providing shelter. The site it beautifully backdropped by the Dandenong Ranges and features within a popular local and international tourist park <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ea757ead75c55a3fbd66aec1a6b5cdc71b5ada1564d6ebd2d139c31efdcd05b/Kokoda09_o.jpg" data-mid="184919481" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/8ea757ead75c55a3fbd66aec1a6b5cdc71b5ada1564d6ebd2d139c31efdcd05b/Kokoda09_o.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0abdc7370a3c5a9c1b7f4ad8ad0f2b0c2c87c757dbbdbbd89d4b388c732363c/Kokoda04_o.jpg" data-mid="184919482" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/c0abdc7370a3c5a9c1b7f4ad8ad0f2b0c2c87c757dbbdbbd89d4b388c732363c/Kokoda04_o.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf031deb219179e7ec9ad37c84cfb8423c65512db87a714512fe80accf91f457/Kokoda06_o.jpg" data-mid="184919483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/bf031deb219179e7ec9ad37c84cfb8423c65512db87a714512fe80accf91f457/Kokoda06_o.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8c9a8b9a4a92708726f4cf5bc4ae68539bdc7e7cad5881fe3b6ead13da1f65e/Kokoda03_o.jpg" data-mid="184919490" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/e8c9a8b9a4a92708726f4cf5bc4ae68539bdc7e7cad5881fe3b6ead13da1f65e/Kokoda03_o.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3222788d6185b34acf9d51698957d808168d7e0529d2aa316ca91676c2509823/Kokoda10_o.jpg" data-mid="184919480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/3222788d6185b34acf9d51698957d808168d7e0529d2aa316ca91676c2509823/Kokoda10_o.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a10b5a66c66223ab709acc1ddf84a2db133e4856fd63186a7af5bbd97c2ff8a9/Kokoda08_o.jpg" data-mid="184919484" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/a10b5a66c66223ab709acc1ddf84a2db133e4856fd63186a7af5bbd97c2ff8a9/Kokoda08_o.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55ca0ebc5b9dd0d39f3c3ecbac1f044c744ed7a0b8eac16dce536284b2cfae7f/Kokoda05_o.jpg" data-mid="184919488" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/55ca0ebc5b9dd0d39f3c3ecbac1f044c744ed7a0b8eac16dce536284b2cfae7f/Kokoda05_o.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aca5b59c97483f379a15db1f148a2887acea740f3e73ff38ab9afb06b6bbebba/Kokoda07_o.jpg" data-mid="184919489" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/aca5b59c97483f379a15db1f148a2887acea740f3e73ff38ab9afb06b6bbebba/Kokoda07_o.jpg" /> https://antarc.com.au/Center-for-Sustainability Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:13:42 +0000 antarc.com.au https://antarc.com.au/Center-for-Sustainability ︎PROJECTS ︎PUBLIC ︎CONCEPT DESIGN ︎FRANKSTON, BUNURONG LAND The design of this sustainable educational and community facility was strongly influenced by the opportunities and serious constraints of the site, a mere slither of land sloping away from the Nepean Highway. Whilst predominantly exhibition space the design incorporates a café/restaurant, multipurpose meeting rooms, virtual reality education suite and ‘sheds’ for educational and community groups to use as a base in the regeneration of Kackeraboite Creek and the adjacent recreation reserve and highway. Bounded by highway and creek the building is “a miniature version of the site” informed not only by the legal setbacks but also by other site conditions, from the existing terraced landscape to the remnant retaining walls of rubble and roof tiles. The café, meeting rooms and main exhibition spaces look east over the creek to the reserve through figured timber fenestration, and are shielded from the traffic and harsh western sun by a solid reclaimed rubble western wall. Above these walls a green roof collects and filters rainwater which is stored and reused on site. Burrowing into the existing terraces of the site below are more exhibition spaces, the community ‘sheds’ and sustainable ‘plant’ which has been deliberately left unveiled for the groups of school kids to explore, to ask why and how, an open air auditorium provides a venue for the answers to be explained. Against the highway a long free standing pergola structure provides a landscape barrier to the moving cars and provides shade for the parked cars on site, doubling as a shaded growers’ market space <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f6686c5640e6f7d5a74647aa200ce91a4e42543834cbf277023d382b49be830/antarc-secs.jpg" data-mid="184922263" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f6686c5640e6f7d5a74647aa200ce91a4e42543834cbf277023d382b49be830/antarc-secs.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a764c6f0688795a1e075b9e96c813ff583f6f2b11fecabeb4b54e77fc2f53da5/antarc-secs2.jpg" data-mid="184922264" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a764c6f0688795a1e075b9e96c813ff583f6f2b11fecabeb4b54e77fc2f53da5/antarc-secs2.jpg" />