Marra Marra Shack

Contributors, Densities, Energy and sustainability, Formats, Leopold Banchini Architects, Low Density, ProjectTopics.

Australia, Colonization, Community, History, indigenous, Low impact, Minimalism, Natural Lighting, Rain Water Harvesting, Sidney, Singular Housing, Solar Energy, Sustainable, Territory&Mobility, Timber, Waterfront.

In 1788 Captain Cook and his fleet entered the delta of the Hawkesbury and the sheltered bay of Sydney. At the entrance of the Dyirabun (Hawkesbury) River, he was first welcomed by the Darug People who had been living on these banks since the beginning of times. Not long after, the British colonized the Australian territory, building a network of roads and electrical lines across the vast country. The electrical posts were made of some of the finest local hard woods. Later on, these posts were slowly replaced by steel posts.