This is a new chapter in a difficult story. The Sunbury Community Arts and Cultural Precinct is located within the former Female Ward of the Sunbury Asylum on Jackson’s Hill. The brief calls for the adaptive reuse of both the Refractory building which opened in 1879 and a more modest mid-century Worker’s Shed into venues that can host and support the arts, the community and cultural events. Our response is driven by a desire to see a landscape that can that can both preserve and celebrate Sunbury’s significant cultural heritage and, for the first time in generations, acknowledge and register the site’s ongoing role in Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung culture. This multivalent landscape will be delivered as four light-touch interventions: the redesign of the main building’s four courtyards as spaces that can host their adjacent cultural uses; the transformation of the workers shed into a workshop that is carefully connected to the main building; the thoughtful removal of material from the former heritage privy in a way that turns it into a landscape pavilion and a breach in the fence of the main lawn forming a new lookout over the three creeks that form the Sunbury plain. This remarkable place will be a site of learning and a place for the people of Sunbury to foster a deeper connection to their community and to its ancient and emerging culture.