Outback Staked House
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Remote living, especially on an island, requires a fair degree of self-sufficiency. Dangar Island has a limited water supply, so all the roofs on the Flood house were designed to collect rainwater and channel it into a 6,600-gallon tank.Photo by: Patrick Bingham Hall -
The Dangar Island house utilizes many eco-friendly tricks of the trade seen in much of modern Australian architecture. North-facing skillion roofs on the main pavilion and the bathhouse usher in the warming winter sun.Photo by: Patrick Bingham Hall -
The kitchen has a view to the Hawkesbury River.Photo by: Patrick Bingham Hall -
Because of the relative inaccessibility of Dangar Island, all building materials needed to be brought in by barge and carried to the site from the pier.Photo by: Patrick Bingham Hall
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