Kalinda city

Sustainable city of year 2100, based on Australian Aborigines stories.

Valuing purpose of the local aborigines, the city aims to use modern technology to preserve the existing environment, cultural heritage, and provide better life quality for all living organisms around the area. As the scorching temperature issue could lead to several problems, decreasing in living organism diversity, discouraging outdoor community activities, and ruining the rock surfaces, the dome is introoduced to the city to provide a controlled environment, protecting all the living organisms from the scorching heat and pollution that is likely to increase in the year 2100.

Uluru, or Ayers Rock, massive sandstone monolith in the heart of the Northern Territory’s arid about a three-hour direct flight from Sydney. It has arid desert location. Alice Springs, the nearest major population centre by road, is five-and-half hour drive away. Uluru is sacred to indigenous Australians.

Yulara is home to the National Indigenous Training Academy, providing employment and training possibilities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Ayers Rock Resort, an Aboriginal-owned business that offers housing, restaurants, and other vital services to visitors to the park, makes up the majority of the town. Indigenous employees currently make up more than 40% of the workforce.

Dream -time

Timeline of Uluru

Across the arid plains of red sand and spinifex that extend beyond the village, the local, Aborigines, Anangus live in Mutitjulu. The population number is 323. Mutitjulu is gated community with entrance limited to those with permit or permission. Visitors are welcomed to Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, but Anangu appreciate their privacy while at home. There is a store, restaurants, and cafes in the village, all of which rely on frequent delivery by truck and plane.

1958

Aboriginal people have lived in the area around Uluru and Kata Tjuta for at least 30,000 years. For Anangu, their culture has always existed here. Anangu believe they are the direct descendants of these beings and are responsible for the protection and appropriate management of these ancestral lands. form the basis of many of their Dreamtime beliefs. Uluru was added to the national park to create the Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park in 1958. The first permanent accommodation was constructed the same year, while a new airstrip allowed the first fly-in, fly-out tour groups.

Anangu were discouraged from visiting the park during this period, but many continued travelling across their homelands to hunt, gather food, visit kin and participate in ceremonies. In 1964, pastoral subsidies were revoked, which saw many Anangu coming to live at Uluru. After pressure from tour operators, the government established a settlement at Kaltukatjara (Docker River) to draw Anangu away from Uluru.

On 26 October 1985, the Governor-General of Australia returned the title deeds to the park to Anangu in a handback ceremony on the oval in Mutitjulu community.

In return, Anangu leased the land to the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service (now Parks Australia) for 99 years. The park continues to be jointly managed by Anangu and Parks Australia.

Anangu is going to fully own the area.

Residental houses

Settlement patterns of residental houses

Stand alone houses

As aborigines appreciate their privacy, some of their houses are distantly placed to provide privacy.

Group houses

To promote family relationship, some of the houses are located as a group. Various size of houses would be provided for different size of family living together.

House typology

1. Build with adobe, have plants and animal hub within the adobe brick. 2. Provide daylight and thermal comfort, pretect dweller from scorhing temperature and sun burn.

3. Install solar panel to provide electricity sustainably.

Adobe

Adobe has multiple propeties that are highly suitable for semi-arid deset conditon. Adobe is durable, biodegradable, non-toxic building materials, provide sufficient thermal mass which saves energy resources. It is also low cost, locally available, adapted to a large variety of soils, and is associated to simple constructive methods that reduces carbon footprint.

Some of the adobe bricks of the houses have holes for plants and animals as the aborigines cherish environment as they believe it is one of their responsibility to look after the health of their land.