Instant Culture

As architects, we hoard cultural information: maps, drawings, books, stories, pictures, notes, letters, sketches. We hope that through our analysis, this information can be meaningfully composed, and that together, our collected fragments can speak to a relevant culture or history in built form.

Country-Centric Design and Technology

Australia’s First Peoples live a relational cultural framework binding us to the natural world and each other. Lived experience is not an abstract philosophy, shaping communities and world views.

Museum of Touch: Making Museums Accessible Through Technology

Museums have long served as cultural guardians, preserving and displaying collections of artworks, artifacts, and specimens that give insight into human history and the natural world. However, most museums prioritise the preservation of these objects, often enclosing them in glass vitrines and restricting direct physical interaction to protect fragile, light-sensitive, or irreplaceable items.

Bangkok Apartment and Chonburi Multi-Purpose Building: Suphasidh Architects

In Thailand, I retraced an old technique of building with rammed earth, with the conviction of its value to the local building industry. Although the technology was prevalent for thousands of years, it has been disregarded for its labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of manually compressing earth. I re-learned this construction technique with our local builders, allowing them the instinctive mastery of the expertise through trials.

Burudi Gurad, Burudi Ora: Critical spatial, relationalities of care

Design and planning across Australia is founded upon Terra Nullius and tabula rasa. These ideas of no man’s land and a blank slate continue to inform how we think about healthcare design

Wattleseed: Scott and Ryland Architects

Wattleseed is a collaboration between Scott and Ryland Architects, Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney Community Greening, IndigiGrow, Taronga Zoo, Powerhouse Museum and Western Sydney University. The design draws on existing Biophilic design and Living Future Institute research and aims to facilitate environmental education through the retrofit of early childhood centres.

Wellbeing in a crisis

“If you choose to fail us, we will never forgive you” – eleven words aimed at the neck of the world by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg via address to the UN’s 2019 Climate Action Summit in New York City.

NextSense: WMK Architecture

The NextSense centre for innovation at Macquarie University by WMK Architecture has opened heralding a new era for hearing and vision loss in Australia.

How architecture can support the wellbeing of building users

Architecture is not just about creating aesthetically pleasing buildings; it plays a crucial role in creating environments that support the health and wellbeing of those who live, work, and play in those spaces. This concept has gained recent attention, as studies highlight the impact of indoor environments on our physical and mental health and how architects are playing a leading role in an increasingly wellness-focused world.

Wellbeing for whom?

What do you think accessibility means? Does it mean compliance with AS1428.1 or the ability to enter a building and spaces within it? Is it about usability? Even if it means all these things, the word accessibility is too limited to encompass all the considerations for people with disabilities and generally does not account for the psychosocial or psycho-emotional experiences of a building.