Choi Ropiha Fighera Pty Ltd

Lune De Sang-Shed 1

Lune De Sang-Shed 1

LUNE DE SANG-SHED 1

Chrofi

ARCHITECTS
Chrofi

SITE MANAGE
Tony kenway

PROJECT DIRECTOR
John choi

PROJECT LEADER
Toby Breakspear

LIGHTING CONSULTANT
Electrolight

STONEMASON
Robert Hartnett and Sons

BUILDER
Cedar Creek Constructions

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
DW Knox & Partners

PLANNER
Planners North

COST PLANNER
QS Plus

CIVIL, HYDRAULIC & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
Northrop

DIRECTOR
Lyle Le Sueur

CERTIFIER
Techton

BUSHFIRE & WASTE WATER
BCA Check

CLIENT
Andy & Deirdre Plummer

JOINERY
Men Joinery

FOREMAN
Karl Vikstrom

SERVICE
Design, Documentation & Site Services

OPERABLE DOORS
Monarch Doors, Steve Jones

PROJECT TEAM
Steven Fighera, Tai Ropiha, Jerome Cateaux, Clinton Weaver, Linda Lam, Felix Rasch

PHOTOGRAPHS
Brett boardman

AREA
1320.0 sqm

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Northern Tablelands, Nsw, Australia

CATEGORY
Workshop, Warehouse

Text description provided by architect.

Lune de Sang is a unique inter-generational venture that will see a significant former dairying property in northern NSW transformed into a sustainably harvested forest.

Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman
Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman

The vision is exceptional in that rather than planting a fast growing crop, various hardwoods of the region have been chosen to establish a rainforest landscape that will take generations to mature.

The hardwoods will be tended to maturity and then selectively harvested, the long lifespan of the trees meaning a wait of between 50 and 300 years before the various species fully mature.

We were captivated by this long term vision, a vision that goes beyond one’s lifetime. The design is a close collaboration with our client, one bound in collective understanding of the site, landscape and time.

Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman
Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman

The rainforest timber’s unhurried growth has influenced our approach for inserting architecture in the site with all the buildings being designed to respond to the notion of a 300 year lifecycle.

The structures, both for working and habitation, are to be endowed with a sense of permanence. They have been conceived as ruins in the landscape; ancient concrete and stone structures that have been unearthed and retrofitted for comfortable habitation with crisp glass and steel details.

Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman
Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman

The ambition is an elemental and atavistic architecture. Structures that may appear to be a rediscovered ruin from the day they are built.

We looked at ruins, forms in nature, and how some structures become cared for across generations.

Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman
Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman
Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman

We sought materials that would mature over time, intensifying the building’s qualities rather than degrading it. We settled on concrete for its multiple qualities.

As both a precise modern abstract material but also ancient in its quality, concrete serves as a universal material that can be read in multiple ways and deployed for both structure and enclosure.

The first structures to be constructed on site are the two sheds. Conceived as site ordering devices, the sheds are part of the delineation between the emerging forest in the valley below and the inhabited domestic landscape toward the ridge above.

Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman
Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman

The sheds are grounded, rhythmical buildings with a crisp repetition of elements that sit with other constructed landscape elements to establish a territorial line and amplify the contrast in landscape condition.

The sheds straddle earth berms and stone retaining walls that control the contours locally to contain space before the energy of this gesture is released to the open grass paddock.

Lune De Sang-Shed 1
Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman

Buttressed against the fall of the land, grasps the space within its folded structure. The volume of the shed is anchored into the hillside to provide elemental prospect and refuge.

A calmness pervades each interior enhancing the spatial experience of the building and the landscape beyond.

Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman
Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman

The thermal mass of the concrete and earth adds to the sense of calmness within and makes the interior significantly cooler in summer and warmer in winter. Shed 1 is composed of a main space with a lower workshop space to one side contained within the retained hillside.

The structure frames views into the landscape - the staccato of the forest in front when viewed through the rhythm of the columns, the visual release upwards and outwards to the open paddock and fig tree, and the stone wall as it winds into the building.

Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman
Lune De Sang-Shed 1
© Brett Boardman

In fullness of time, both structures will only be revealed upon arrival at their immediate setting intensifying their presence in the landscape. In the mean time, these quiescent structures will continue to look out to the forest waiting for its emergence.



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Lune De Sang-Shed 1
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