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Dogtrot House Celebrates the Frugal Elegance of Australian Public Campsites

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A sublimely simple plan informs the Dog Trot House by Dunn & Hillam Architects.

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The brief: to design a holiday home for a family, that would have the informality of a campsite.

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They wanted everything they loved about camping except the need to pack up at the end of every holiday.

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The name comes from the design, houses divided into two free standing structures with an open passageway between to connect them.

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The idea is that the open, shaded passageway in the center is a place a dog can trot on days when it’s hot.

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The dogtrot passageway between the public and the private spaces is shaded by the overhanging roof.

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You can almost smell the hot dry air of the campsite perfumed by Pines and Eucalyptus.

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There is something of the public campsite’s great room in the anonymous materials and deadpan design.

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The simple but hardwearing materials palette includes locally sourced hardwood, fibre cement boards and concrete.

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The lean anonymity of these materials verges on the mundane.

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A no-nonsence big commercial kitchen seats ten easily.

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“The Dogtrot House is a permanent campsite,” say the architects. “It celebrates the frugality and elegance of shelter, it is a house for the carrying out of family life in the elements, it is a house that is everything you need and nothing you didn’t. It is humble, poetic and without pretence.”

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