Zones of Care: Resilient Community Infrastructure

This project explores the formation of ‘zones of care’ that emerged naturally during the fire. These zones organise the people of rosedale to work as a collective under a shared acknowledgement of…

New Years Eve, 2019 – My story

From early November in Canberra, we were troubled by smoke from bushfires.  We had toxic air for weeks.   We wore masks to go outdoors.   Visibility was seriously reduced.    We all focused on air…

Using architecture as a tool to support Yuin cultural practices

The purpose of this project is to reinvorgate cultural fire burning within the Rosedale and Yuin com­munity through community centres at various locations through the landscape, al­lowing cultural…

Saltwater Creek: Highlighting and improving a natural fire buffer

The purpose of this project is to reinvorgate cultural fire burning within the Rosedale and Yuin com­munity through community centres at various locations through the landscape, al­lowing cultural…

Retaining soil moisture in the slope: slowing the spread of fire

This project explores how we can retain moisture in the soil by maximising the use of regional water around Rosedale through both infrastructural and natural systems to slow the progression of fires…

Timber harvesting to modulate wind and fire effects

Fire and wind have an intrinsic relationship. As well as wind conditions determining fire outcomes, they are both a kind of ephemeral kinetic energy, both key ecological processes that shape the…