Nurturing by nature

Wendy’s one-person home in southern Tasmania was built to be “just enough” to support her with food and shelter, and has evolved over a decade as her needs have changed.

Chris Crerar

AT A GLANCE - Simple, small home with integrated food gardens - Designed for resilience, self-sufficiency and community connection - Continuous adaptation as needs change Imagine a world in which everyone’s main priorities for a new home were focused less on aesthetics and future value and more on sustainable shelter and connection to community. Now extend that thinking to embrace the idea that our new home can evolve to meet our needs over time, rather than being perfectly completed from first occupancy. Wendy Fountain’s home is a great example. A little over a decade ago, while undertaking a PhD in design for resilience, Wendy took on a parallel project of building a home for herself as an experiment in identifying fundamental needs and reconceptualising housing as a food and shelter system. “I…

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