Hi,
Matt, Nghia and I worked together on this project, trying to create a self sustainable house in kakadu. Below are the finalised drawings of our designs. I will post the posters as well as photos of the models later.

Site Plan-
We chose a sloping site from the set of photos, and utilised this to provide a view, aid ventilation, and make space for our garage. The gradient under the house creates space for our garage, batteries and water storage.

Floor Plan-
Our concept utilised two shafts which ran through each other at different heights, deviding the space. Our focus was to not let this idea create any wasted space, or hinder function in any way. The plans development consisted of lowering the roofs of the shafts to aid ventilation, creating the largest space as the living space, and all spaces outside of the shafts as shared spaces. The kitchen and dining room, laundry, study and entrance hallway are all exposed, whereas the bedrooms and toilet are within the shafts. The entire outer shell was to be composed of louvres, and the kitchen and study walls would include bifold doors to the deck.
To utilise the space of the hallways, the bedrooms each have a set of bifold blinds at the back of their desks, which can be opened so the large desks can be used from either side, either sitting in the room or the hallway.
The enterance hallway also holds a set of shelves down one side, and lines for drying behind the louvres.

Elevations-
Our houses elevations are dominated be the horizintality of the louvres lines. We chose to run with this by creating a low gradient for teh roof, and creating similar forms with the ballustrades of the decking. The roofs curve came about through our 2nd concept of having a shaft of water drain through the house, 'celebrating water' as the most important component of a self sustainable house, and also by orieting the solar panels on top to the northern sun.
The first elevation also shows our retaining wall which we used to create space for the garage. Behind this retaining wall is an agricultural drain which would collect water into the grey water system.
the down pipes run at angles and become the support for the ballustrade.
Sectional perspective-
This drawing shows our final design concept. The water shaft became two sheets of glass back to back, with the water flowing in between. The shafts profiles were developed into a form which alternates in and out. Creating storage on both sides. This profile is customised throughout the house. In this perspective the kitchen can be seen. The extrusion was made double and bent off teh wall to create the shape. The supports for the bench bent off the wall was to be hidden by mirrors, to create a bench which appears to be hanging off the wall.