Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA) has developed families of subtle and poetic approaches to architecture, deployed in this project to address the needs of a community recovering after a catastrophe, honouring memories of the past without symbolizing them, expressing the democratic inclusivity that is driving the regeneration of a town but also providing the actuality of an essential civic presence.
Marysville is a small Victorian town in the southern foothills of the Great Dividing Range that separates east-coast Australia from the hinterland. A great arc of mature oak trees curves down past a park towards a cricket and football oval in the bowl of a valley, from which the often snow-covered peak of Lake Mountain can be seen. After the Black Saturday fires of 2009 almost all that survived of the town was this arc of oaks and the smooth turf of the oval, and today the peaks still show silhouettes of the pencil-slender trunks of the burned mountain ash forest.
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