Southern Highlands House | Benn + Penna Architects

“A tiny house, like a tiny temple, can be a perfect work of art” - Marion Mahony Griffin The design is for a new home-office pavilion alongside two existing pavilions on a remote rural property three hours drive south of Sydney. The new building is part of a set of three free standing pavilions that each contain the functions of sleeping, living and working – a configuration reflecting a harmonious life-cycle balance that is interwoven into its natural environment. The pavilions are loosely arranged at the base of a natural amphitheatre formed by the towering sandstone cliffs of the Barragorang Valley. On approach the pavilions appear like a small farming community, clad entirely in non-combustible metal sheeting and carefully resolved to protect against its unsuspectingly deadly environment.