Proposition 6707 is the second in a series of annual architecture and urban design competitions aimed at promoting critical investigation into the development of strategic locations around Australia. The competition this year invites entrants to rethink eco-lodge tourism models in fragile and remote coastal environments and demonstrate design excellence and sustainability in such sensitive locations.

Proposition 6707 directly engages the single most important issue facing nature-based tourism: how to manage tourist growth better so as not to destroy the very resources or qualities that the visitors come to experience. As such, development must be considered holistically, involving the provision or incorporation of facilities and experiences beyond accommodation.

The competition focuses on the Cape Range National Park near Exmouth, about 1200 kilometres north of Perth. The area is appreciated locally, nationally and internationally for its significant natural and cultural heritage qualities. The park is on the western side of the Exmouth peninsula adjoining the Ningaloo Marine Park, one of the longest fringing reefs in the world. In its remoteness and fragility it contains many characteristics that make it a prototypical site for sustainable tourism within Australiaís coastal environment. The specific competition site comprises a parcel of land between two creek beds on the lower terrace of the western side of the Cape Range National Park, approximately two kilometres from the coast.

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