FIGR.019 TRIDENT
Set within the vast openness of the Australian rural landscape, this house is conceived as a precise incision into the land, where architecture and terrain converge. The building is anchored deeply into its site, reading less as an object placed upon the landscape and more as a landform shaped by it. Like a contemporary act of land art, the house cuts through the terrain, framing expansive northern views across open paddocks while simultaneously carving out a protected southern courtyard.
This sheltered courtyard operates as both climatic buffer and place of retreat, tempering harsh north-westerly heat and shielding the home from cold southerly and easterly winds. In this way, the building acts as a refuge within an exposed environment, offering moments of stillness, enclosure, and intimacy against a broader, elemental backdrop.
“Conceived as a precise cut through the Australian landscape.”
The material palette is deliberately reduced to three primary elements: rammed earth, off-form concrete, and timber. This restraint allows the architecture to be read with clarity, foregrounding mass, proportion, and the slow movement of shadow across surface. Material becomes structure, enclosure, and expression simultaneously, eliminating excess in favour of legibility and permanence.
“A refuge shaped by climate, terrain, and time.”
Designed with Passive House principles in mind, the dwelling operates entirely off-grid, supported by geothermal energy. Rammed earth walls provide thermal mass, fire resistance, and longevity, paired with concrete floor and roof plates and timber-framed glazing. This restrained palette of three primary materials reinforces clarity of form, material honesty, and a deep connection to place.
CREDITS.
PROJECT TEAM
Adi Atic, Michael Artemenko
BUILDER
TBC
ARTIST IMPRESSION
FIGR
