Upside Down Akubra House in Nundle, NSW Sustainable Residence, Australian Home, Architecture Images
Upside Down Akubra House in Nundle, NSW
Sustainable Australian Real Estate, New South Wales House – design by ASA – Alexander Symes Architect
14 Nov 2019
Upside Down Akubra House
Design: ASA – Alexander Symes Architect
Location: Nundle, NSW, Australia
The Upside Down Akubra House is located in the middle of a bull paddock sits an off-grid home inspired by the iconic Australian Akubra hat.

This inspiration came about at the first meeting with the clients on their bull farm, around 50mins south east of Tamworth. The client had selected the site for their new home atop a gently sloping hill, amongst a grove of eucalypts, with the land falling sharply away to the east to a dry creek bed. From this vantage point the clients pointed out the vistas they wanted to appreciate from their new home: ?yella-rock? to the south, ?hanging-rock? to the east, a unique vista north through the grove of native tress and a vista west, over the dusty bull paddocks to the rolling hills beyond. Essentially an amazing 360 degree view all the way around.
It was at this point that one of the key challenges for this project presented itself: how to create a low energy, thermally comfortable home that celebrated views all around. The station manager was curiously watching on, wondering what this city-slicker Architect was going to do, when I asked him for his Akubra hat. Placing it ups...