Elemental house is a low impact off-grid retreat on an exposed ridge line at a place called High Camp, an hour north of Melbourne. It has been designed in 2018 by Ben Callery Architects.

Description
n a compact 10m x 10m footprint, this house has one bedroom, one bathroom and one living room. But while it shuns some of the excesses of modern life, it doesn?t sacrifice comfort.
The house produces and stores its own power, collects its own rain water and treats its own waste water on site.
The design interacts with the elements to create natural comfort; inviting warming winter sun, blocking out hot summer sun and catching prevailing cool breezes.
Perched on a hill overlooking stunning panoramic views, it is exposed to the harshest of Australia?s elements; category N3 winds (low level cyclonic,) bushfire attack level of BAL-29, and the unforgiving hot summer sun. It was the raw natural beauty of the place that drew our clients there. They told us that ?woora woora? means ?sky? in the local dialect and the sky out here is expansive and beautiful. But on such an exposed site, the sky takes on a paradoxical relationship for us; providing all that we need to be self-sufficient but also imposing the harsh elements that make this place inhospitable. Rather than shy away, this bold little house confronts the elements and embraces them, immersing the occupant in the broad landscape beyond.
The geometric form is a pure expression of the essence of shelter that we cr...