Kavillo Studios by Cameron Anderson Architects is a luxury tourism accommodation in Buckaroo, Australia. Designed in 2024, the project features a distinctive tent-like roof structure. Owner-built by sculptor Michael Ferris, the design includes rammed earth walls and galvanized metal cladding, referencing local materials.
The project combines rural aesthetics with environmental considerations, offering a handcrafted, sustainable retreat.

Kavillo Studios are a luxury tourism accommodation project located in Mudgee NSW that were owner built by client Michael Ferris, an emerging Sculptor. The built form of Kavillo studios aims to recreate the essence of camping with a roof that forms a tent like structure draping over the internal program below.
The folded roof form appears in tension and grounds itself to a rammed earth plinth on the South West corner. A heavy Western rammed earth wall is shaded by the roof, while grounding the building and providing privacy from the neighbouring suite of buildings that extend to the West. The buildings while quite open to the prevailing Southern views are afforded privacy from the folding roof which opens to allow Northern winter sun via a glazed door.

The palette of materials draws from its rural context with galvanised sheet metal cladding and roofing drawing from the many shearing sheds in close proximity while the rammed earth references the abundance of Pise? buildings that appear in this locality.

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