In the northwest of Australia, with its subtropical climate and desert landscape, herds of cattle are moved about, and the cowboys in charge of them have to settle for a while in the places where they stop for the animals to graze. They can now be housed in this livestock station comprising twelve temporary dwellings and some communal facilities (including a meeting room and a chapel) where the most notable feature is the construction system used. Tucked under the edge of a natural sand dune, the building meanders in a thin red line that acts as a retaining wall and which in itself is a product of the earth. The ‘Great Wall of WA’(Western Australia), as it has been dubbed, is 230 meters long and 45 centimeters thick, and its mass serves to naturally cool the interior spaces below, thanks to the thermal inertia of rammed earth prepared with materials taken from the place: iron-rich clay, gravel from the bed of a nearby river, and water drawn from a local well...