This project questions understandings of design and nature by fusing conceptual and material design with deep understandings of indigenous land and culture through analogies of nature through the form of the structure that inhabits the space.

Contrasting the recent (mining) and deep (indigenous culture and nature) history of the site through the form begins the story of this place. The ground plane takes on a rigid uniform structure in the form of rectangular rusted steel cubes stacked as an inverse of the deep cut mines and steel extracted for export to China. The polyester net form that hovers over, stretched, taut, tells the story of the sites deep history. The net follows the six seasons of the site from hibernation through to the outpouring of flooding that arrives in monsoon.

The steel structure steps up just below nature as it arrives to its culmination, storing water through this process in order to irrigate the square in dry season, such is colonial man's need for control over country. The net form culminates at the core of the site where the uniform rigid structure meets nature. An attempt to bridge this conflicting understanding of country is approached through a community 'house' for expression, training, recreation and living if needed.