ABSTRACT
The urgent challenge is: How can we develop distinctive, sustainable constructional forms that complement our landscape, trees, climate, myths and socio-cultural values? The solution is exemplified in the ‘Queenslander’ house, its set of rooms surrounded by a fringe of timber posts forming thresholds to the landscape, offering potential for variety and interpretation, i.e. cultural as well as environmental sustainability. This chapter explores that solution; use of timber is a recurring motif in the work of Andresen O’Gorman Architects.
