Lune de Sang | Choi Studio and CHROFI

At first glance, Lune de Sang may seem an unlikely candidate for an Urban Design award. This is not an urban environment in the conventional sense. Instead, this project asks a different question: how can the placemaking principles underpinning urban design operate in regional landscapes?

Set on Bundjalung country, on a former dairying property in northern New South Wales, Lune de Sang is organised as a dispersed precinct rather than a single architectural work. Sheds, dwellings, workers’ accommodation and a communal pavilion are deliberately positioned to establish routes, thresholds and territories across the site. Working buildings, including the sheds, are treated as civic infrastructure—shaping movement, framing gathering spaces and making production visible. Over time, this collection of structures operates like a small settlement, where daily life, labour and landscape are closely intertwined and held together through long-term stewardship.