Cypress House
Williamstown
Residential

In collaboration with Donald Gallagher

Built by:  Clockwork Constructions
Photography: Tom Ross

Cypress House is an alteration and addition of a single storey house on a corner block in Williamstown. The proposed addition works with the existing fabric of the site as it slips in under the existing roofline while taking formal cues from the existing roof pitch. The proposal is a modest, eco addition for the clients to retire into. The timber cladding to the addition has all been sourced from old growth Cypress trees on a farm in regional Victoria, where the client grew up.

Press:
Green Magazine

Macquarie Point Urban Precinct & Stadium
Hobart
Speculative: public & commercial

In collaboration with Donald GallagherRenders: Mia Fleming & Frank Burridge

This proposal adds to and links Hobart’s public parkland to a proposed AFL stadium and urban precinct. The land around, and under, the proposed sporting oval at Macquarie Point becomes public, civic and commercial space, used 365 days of the year. While providing the city with a future hub for public transport infrastructure, the design concept doubles the usable space & triples the land value. A structure, with potential to be a hotel, floats above the concourse, providing cover to the seating inside, while there are multi-purpose opportunities underneath the “hill”. The design showcases Hobart’s rugged, natural backdrop by remaining low and opening up to hug the cenotaph.

Folks House
Williamstown
Residential

Interior design by: inDesign Company
Built by: BFC Built
Photography: Tom Ross

The renovation and fit out of a grand heritage house in Williamstown. The brief was to bring more light into the dark, cavernous house and provide a direct connection between the garden and the living spaces within tight heritage controls. The resulting design acts to restore and reinvigorate the existing dwelling, creating a diversity of spaces, small and large for the clients and their family to enjoy and expand in.

Press:
The Local Project
The Design Files

Hoa’s House
North Melbourne
Residential

In collaboration with Miles Ritzmann-Williams Built by: Macca
Photography: Tom Ross

Hoa's House is the conversion of the 150 year old Kings Arms Hotel in North Melbourne into a three bedroom home. The existing two level office space was stripped back and transformed into a three story home, with plenty of storage and nooks for the clients extensive collection of furniture and objects. Curves and material changes divide up the awkward, tiny plan.

Press:
Habitus Living
The Design Files
Green Magazine
Architectural Digest (Germany)
Yellowtrace

Bus Projects
Collingwood
Cultural

In collaboration with Card Practice Built by: Bus Projects & ioa studio
Photography: Christo Crocker

Design, fabrication and construction of exhibition display for the 6th Bus Projects Edition Exhibition, a major fundraising exhibition of limited edition artworks by over 30 emerging, mid-career and established artists.

Invert 3.0 Mini Living
Northcote
Speculative

In collaboration with
Alexandra Buchanan Architecture
Photography:  Tess Kelly

This proposal, ‘outHOUSE’, imagines a dwelling that can adapt and change with you through time. The overarching idea is to design only the framework or support structures of the house, providing the essential infrastructure (bathroom, kitchen, laundry and stairwell) and have the occupants fill in the rest as they require, exploring the notion of 'infrastructure as a generator'. The traditional concept of laneways as service spaces is flipped it to imagine them as habitable social spaces. A reinterpretation of the granny flat typology, outHOUSE targets first home buyers, designing a framework that puts the users in control of the building process and programming of spaces.

Press:
Green Magazine

Hobart Brewing Company
Hobart
Hospitality

In collaboration with Donald Gallagher

Photography:  Hobart Brewing Company

HBC is a brewery, bar and events venue in the iconic Red Shed in Hobart. It is part of the urban renewal of Macquarie Point. The design of the brewery works to celebrate, contrast and be in dialogue with the Red Shed. The adaptive re-use of the existing fabric of the Red Shed works alongside the robust new additions. The shed opens up to Macquarie Point, creating indoor-outdoor dining spaces, inviting greenery and hanging gardens into the brewery.

VEIL Leeuwarden Cambuur Stadium
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Speculative

In collaboration with Jimi Connor & Miles Ritzmann

Project for: VEIL

Cambuur stadium is the adaptive reuse of an empty soccer stadium in the Leeuwarden. The brief was to re-imagine Cambuur Stadium, car parking & training grounds, creating a space that can be enjoyed year round. The proposal seeks to retain the existing sporting facilities and infrastructure, with the potential to continue its use as a stadium, while integrating alternate program, such as a marketplace, performance space, productive landscapes, co-working spaces and housing. The sporting ground was raised up to create dual surfaces that can accommodate different uses concurrently. 

VEIL Leeuwarden Eco Acupuncture
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Speculative

In collaboration with Jimi Connor & Miles Ritzmann

Project for: VEIL

As part of the Leeuwarden Cultural Capital 2018, this intervention looked at the connection between the city and the water in an underutilised, disconnected area. The proposal facilitates the opportunity to activate and regenerate the urban condition, reconnecting people to the water and to their city, through small scale interventions.
Through new pathways, floating platforms, new outdoor spaces, water becomes a place for people to connect with and occupy. This expands the reach of the opera house and surrounding buildings beyond their boundaries and into the public realm.

House That She Built
Research
Residential

House That She Built is a house proposed to be designed and built by an all female identifying team. The scope of the proposal is for a new build on a highly vegetated sloping site. Bordering a park, the design aims to touch the earth lightly, while offering views and connections with the outside. The living and sleeping areas of the house are separated by a generous deck, encouraging daily connections to its environment. Through passive design, a modest footprint and use of recycled materials, it is a highly energy efficient home.

Coming soon...

WeFo is the renovation and addition of an existing Californian bungalow in West Footscray. The proposed design creates a robust family home that can adapt with the clients changing needs, achieved within a modest footprint. The new addition sits behind the original house and hugs the boundary, allowing it to fully open up to the garden and private open space.

Coming soon...

Terrace House
South Melbourne
Residential

Built by: Pledge Buliders

Located on a very tight site in South Melbourne, the design of Terrace house seeks to let in as much daylight and warmth into the rooms as possible, through skylights, lightwells and the  reconfiguring of spaces. Terrace House is a renovation and addition to a heritage three storey home. The brief was to give new life to the thin terrace house to accommodate a growing family, for their present and their future.

Coming soon...

Country House & Clinic
Swan Hill
Residential & Commercial

Located in Swan Hill, Country House is conceived as three pavilions, connected through functional links. Each ‘pavilion’ has a specific use and allows for a flow of public to private spaces, accommodating a growing young family and home office clinic.
The design takes cues from rural sheds and responds to the landscape and climate context in which it sits.

Coming soon...