This session explores how stair pressurisation systems—while often treated as purely technical—have a direct influence on architectural planning, spatial efficiency, and occupant life safety.

The Australian Apartment Advocacy (AAA) conducts research every two years to ascertain owners views about their apartments and what they love, would change and also buy next.

Architectural intent does not end at practical completion. Between design and demolition lies a space where documentation, supplier engagement, verification and maintenance either protect or erode the original vision of a project.

This session introduces architects to sensory design through a psychological and neuroscientific lens. It frames architectural practice as an active participant in regulating perception, attention, behaviour, meaning, wellbeing and health—mental health in particular. The session equips participants with a nascent theoretical, yet practical conceptual framework for design.