Atkinson Recycle | Light House Architecture and Science
The Atkinson Recycle demonstrates the enormous potential within Canberra’s existing housing stock by transforming a classic Canberra 413 ‘exgovie’ into an energy efficient, family home.
In 1882 the Atkinson cycle was designed to provide efficiency at the expense of power density. In 2022, this little house was redesigned to provide efficiency at the expense of unnecessary floor area and embodied carbon.
The original ‘exgovvie’ character remains while the functionality and sustainability have been dramatic dramatically improved. The revitalized home achieves an impressive energy efficiency rating of 7.2 stars and uses more than 60% **less** energy than the average Canberra home.
With careful attention to detail, including a refreshed façade and thoughtful interior design, the home seamlessly blends with its surroundings while offering modern comforts and a very small carbon footprint.
This exemplary project demonstrates a commitment to sustainable suburb reinvigoration and sets a benchmark for sensitive yet innovative housing transformation.
Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity Hub | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects
Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity (AFSE) is an Indigenousled social change fellowship program based at University of Melbourne. The brief was to create an inspiring and culturally safe space for staff and visitors, and a welcoming place for leaders from Australia and the Pacific to collaborate.
Underpinned by extensive Indigenous engagement, the design process involved listening to and being guided by Indigenous voices. The design incorporates a Welcome space, Knowledge room, kitchen, amenities, open and enclosed offices, and an Elders Lounge. The layout and adjacency of spaces were functionally and culturally informed.
The Welcome space incorporates a contemporary interpretation of message sticks as a ceremonial space for connection. 60 message sticks were sent across the Country to be carved and marked by Indigenous artists. The Hub enables fellows to thrive in a culturally safe work environment while also meeting ambitious aspirations for environmental and cultural sustainability.
Australia Place Lobby Refurbishment | COX Architecture
Australia Place is a highly considered lobby experience that celebrates art, light and texture. At the heart of the project is a previously concealed existing stained-glass window now braced by black quartzite to become a beacon set deep within the lobby. The white Carrara marble that wraps lining the walls opposite, create a texture symbolic of a curtain, creating a secondary back drop for the lobby.
A focus was placed on providing low level mood lighting to the voluminous lobby space to create a sense of intimacy, comfort and privacy. The lobby is delineated with bespoke joinery and key furniture selected to provide an array of user experiences. The feature ceiling pendant lights anchor the lounge space centred within the lobby whilst the loose furniture and fixed high bench joinery adjacent to the glass curtain wall offers café patrons another experience and welcoming transition into a revitalised lobby experience.
Aviation Lane | The Mill: Architecture + Design
Aviation Lane is the culmination of ten years of collaboration between client and architect. The completed project centres around providing a healthy, supportive and connected workplace setting that puts people at the heart of every decision. Great efforts have been made to provide a space that genuinely supports varied workstyles, provokes collaboration and fosters connection.
The space celebrates many of the features of modern workplace design without losing the individuality that makes different government departments what they are. All design decisions were aimed at providing flexible, connected and healthy spaces, with the final build coming in under budget in spite of an inflated pandemic market.
Aviation Lane shows what a considered collaboration between client and architect can achieve, and what the future of workplace design looks like. It celebrates the people behind the work, and aims to provide a home away from home.
Baldivis District Sports Complex | Site Architecture Studio
SITE was commissioned for the Baldivis District Sport Complex (BDSC) by the City of Rockingham in mid-2019 following the completion of a masterplan prepared by Hames Sharley. SITE’s commission was for the design and delivery of 4 main buildings and interconnecting landscaping with the ovals, internal road and carparks completed under a separate forward works.
The experience of walking through the landscape is to inform users journeys to and within the buildings. Journeys are curated in spaces and along passages which continually reveal and connect back to the surrounding landscape through varied visual connections. High levels of transparency between the spaces improve natural light and amenity for users as well as sparking curiosity improving participation and safety.
Overall, the BDSC is an architecture based on connecting users to the site & place on a human scale, establishing a timeless sport and recreation experience for the community.
Barker College Maths and Student Hub | Architectus
The foundation of effective education is wellbeing. The Barker College Math’s Hub blends wellbeing and education through principles of biophilic design and didacticism that sees nature inspired timber classrooms enveloped in a facade that integrates the mathematical syllabus within its geometry.
Featuring two levels of mass timber teaching and learning spaces over a podium of social areas, informal study spaces, and a dining common, the Math’s Hub combines work, study and rejuvenation in an environment that prioritises sustainability.
The extensive use of sustainably sourced mass timber reduces the building’s embodied carbon footprint by more than 25% while creating a nature inspired learning environment. Organic finishes, abundant daylight, natural ventilation and passive heating and cooling strategies have all been designed to further minimise the building’s impact on the environment while simultaneously bringing the benefits of biophilia to the school community.
Bayview Tree House | Woodward Architects
Nestled in the lee of a North facing hillside, Bayview Tree House offers prospect through spotted gum eucalypts toward Pittwater and Lion Island on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
The original 1970’s brick and painted weatherboard beach house has been adaptively reimagined to facilitate the needs of a growing family whilst enhancing their connection to the surrounding bush and the bay.
The response was to celebrate the existing house DNA by maintaining the original building form reconstructed using natural materials such as recycled hardwood and exposed steelwork in cohesion with the existing brickwork, reflective of the Sydney School architectural movement prevalent in the 1970’s.
Beatty Street | B.E. Architecture
Beatty Street is a six storey home that has been excavated into the limestone hillside providing living areas for a multigenerational family. It’s a largely horizontal home situated in a vertical landscape.
Terraced balconies form a series of projected planes that follow the fall of the hillside creating a single cohesive monumental form. The stacked form of the building allows for maximisation of outdoor space creating privacy from the parkland below.
It is engaged with more than just the harbour views via a centralised six storey internal light court and garden providing a dual aspect home. An inserted sculptural limed oak ribbon stair exchanges horizontal view lines for a dramatic vertical form.
Social areas are in the middle floors of the stacked elevation, allowing the family to always maintain close connection, while also being able to retreat to private quiet areas on the levels above and below.
Bellevue Hill House | Tribe Studio Architects
This grand old Arts and Crafts dame in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs channels the spirit of the original architect in its restoration and extension. Opening up to sun, garden and view, the house now addresses its beautiful garden, supports energetic and playful family life as well as contemporary work from home.
Driving our design process was the question: If the original architect had access to our building materials and tools, how would they approach the brief? We have used the ethos of the arts and crafts to be inventive with detail, to embrace narrative within the design and to lean into eccentricity.
Aire Apartments | Rothelowman
Aire is a premium multi residential building in The Orchards in Norwest, Sydney. Sekisui House’s master planned community is sustainable and sociable; residents have connections to nature; architecture has presence and permanence; and dwellings are designed for long-term living. Rothelowman enshrined these values in the architecture, interiors and landscape of Aire, holistically entwining the built form and functional performance.
Aire’s organic form and precast concrete palette are drawn from a river pebble. The dual form and rounded corners respond to the site and increase solar access, privacy and views. The 57 dwellings are individually tuned for light, ventilation and outlook, and the range from one to four bedrooms creates a mix of households in one building. The communal lounge and rooftop pool provide social amenities for all residents in The Orchards. Aire’s elegant form and façade also reinterpret Sydney’s Art Deco apartments, instilling a sense of place and perpetuity in the new growth area.