Opens on Aug 2 until Aug 24, 2025
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Fayroze Lutta
Shell
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Posters and zine, CMYK print on paper, dimensions vary
Shell is a speculative residential prototype exploring what “home” might become in response to climate uncertainty, affordability, and evolving social needs. Inspired by Dr Dante Bini’s 1970s Binishell technology—once used in NSW schools and now mostly forgotten—this design reimagines home as a monolithic, sustainable concrete dome suited to contemporary suburban Australia.
Home here is not just shelter, but resilience. The design incorporates passive solar heating, evaporative cooling, atmospheric water generation, and off-grid energy systems. Internally, the plan prioritises inclusivity, adaptability, and acoustic comfort, with no shared bedroom walls and seamless flow across indoor-outdoor zones.
Shell interrogates the permanence and fragility of “home” as both refuge and idea. It pays homage to heritage, reinvents a modernist aesthetic, and proposes radical simplification: less material, more design.
By marrying innovation and memory, it invites viewers to consider new forms of domestic life—rooted, yet responsive; concrete, yet visionary.
Home here is not just shelter, but resilience. The design incorporates passive solar heating, evaporative cooling, atmospheric water generation, and off-grid energy systems. Internally, the plan prioritises inclusivity, adaptability, and acoustic comfort, with no shared bedroom walls and seamless flow across indoor-outdoor zones.
Shell interrogates the permanence and fragility of “home” as both refuge and idea. It pays homage to heritage, reinvents a modernist aesthetic, and proposes radical simplification: less material, more design.
By marrying innovation and memory, it invites viewers to consider new forms of domestic life—rooted, yet responsive; concrete, yet visionary.
Fayroze Lutta is a multidisciplinary creative with a background in sustainability, design, and environmental planning. Her practice explores intersections between architecture, ecology, and social equity, often through speculative and adaptive re-use frameworks. With a passion for low-impact, future-focused design, she creates work that questions conventional ideas of shelter, space, and belonging. Drawing on personal narratives and broader ecological concerns, Fayroze’s projects are grounded in research yet driven by imagination.
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Zine, small print run, $20 ea
