[8] Outpost form studies

The outpost need to become a retreat from the hostile desert environment of the Australian Outback for all those who require or request salvation. As such, it needs to be both offensive and defensive to overcome the extreme climatic conditions, temperatures and lack of infrastructural support. The architecture must have a presence of both culture and parliamentary status - dominance and recession. In achieving this the outpost needs to emerge from the landscape sensitively and express a sense of power through tectonic materiality and architectural icon. The sequence of images below explores possible cross-sectional cuts through the outpost which could give the form a more dynamic desert lighting effect and sensitive formation in response to the context / terrain.