During last year, several bushfires surrounded Mallacota, a little Australian city. Part of the city and the surrounding forest were destroyed.
The approach to reconstruction is simple and bottom-up. It consists in a sequence of spaces.
The trigger is made by a rammed-earth wall and a stabilized-earth pavement, both fire-proof materials, in order to protect and create high quality public spaces.
The strategies are at different scales. The first one is the border, which is composed by terraces facing the buffer area composed by preventive silvicuture and agriculture fields.
Going into the city, the trigger generates spaces for the society enclosing the area where all the services take place. Furthermore, public pools are the symbol of the social aggregator in Australian's culture.
Finally, walls enter inside the neighbourhood and generate semi-public spaces, in order to encourage relationships in the community.
Behind the project there is an assemblage logic. An infinite number of combinations is possible
