Reflecting on Senses of Home

Home is a concept that is both familiar and elusive, encompassing both the material dwelling (a home) and an existential state (feeling at home). As architects, we are engaged in the imagination and construction of houses with a promise that the existential state will follow. However, we cannot assume that the foundations that we lay afford everyone the same opportunity to feel at home.

The Healing Garden at the Heide Museum of Modern Art

We’ve found that the Healing Garden is a democratic space because you don’t need language in the garden. There are no expectations in the garden. The garden brings memory – which is vitally important for people diagnosed with dementia.

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.

Splendour and Sparkle

“The interiors of this building were designed under an unusual set of circumstances, whereby the tactics and skills of set design were writ large on a complex performing arts venue.”

Yarra Ranges Special Development School by Architecture architecture

Many of us will have memories of bustling school corridors: throngs of students pushing their way through elbows and school bags under bright white lights.

Comfort or dis/comfort

This article explores two KTA projects: the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, using humane design to address sensitive content, and Bundanon, where climatic discomfort connects visitors to Country.