Barcaldine is located at the junction of several aquifers, and as a result, in what would otherwise be a barren place, the landscape and the language of garden structures abound. Central to this is the lattice screen, with its capacity to reduce glare, provide shade and mediate the harsh external environment or provide the frame for a trellis.

Perched on stilts, a new lookout sits ‘in the round’, wrapped in lattice scaled up to allow a person to inhabit diagonal openings. A contemporary mix of local landscape structures and regional towers.

Tendered and built in the early phases of cost escalation during Covid, we were required to find cost savings. This was achieved by peeling back the ‘lattice’ on the East, further opening up views from the lookout towards the Tree of Knowledge, whilst still protecting the western façade and addressing street.