Urban Projects
Compact, Resilient, Low-Maintenance — We design calm, efficient urban places with tight sites, mixed-use footprints, and adaptive re-use. Structure, climate strategy, and landscape work as one system. Our approach emphasises passive performance, robust materials, and blue-green infrastructure to lower operating costs and simplify long-term maintenance.
Infill & Mixed-Use
Efficient footprints, stacked services, and shared cores reduce cost and improve flexibility. Activated ground levels—shopfronts, studios, and community edges—support foot traffic and safer streets.
Adaptive Re-use
Re-using sound structures preserves embodied carbon and neighbourhood character while accelerating delivery and approvals. We showcase this principle in our Concrete Arches projects.
Transit-Oriented Living
Orienting entrances, bike rooms, and amenities to public transport shortens car trips and unlocks more of the site for landscape and people space.
Blue-Green Infrastructure
Rain gardens, permeable courts, and living/blue-green roofs absorb and meter stormwater, cool roof surfaces and nearby air, and support biodiversity. See how this strategy shapes our Eco Resort Design work.
Public Realm
Pocket parks and shaded micro-plazas improve comfort and social cohesion, with measurable mental-health benefits even at small scales.
Materials & Resilience
Robust envelopes (concrete, steel, magnesium-oxide panels) and ember-resistant detailing reduce lifecycle upkeep and improve disaster readiness. Learn more in our Bushfire-Resistant Buildings projects.
How We Plan Urban Sites
- Passive first: massing, shading, cross-flow air paths, thermal mass.
- People-first streets: active corners, fine-grain entries, night lighting, CPTED principles.
- Water smart: on-structure planters, bioswales, detention layers on blue-green roofs, and staged discharge to council systems.
- Buildable: repeatable structural bays, simple detailing, service risers that future-proof change of use.
Services for Urban Clients
- Concept & feasibility for infill/mixed-use
- Adaptive re-use studies
- Council & code pathways
- Façade + thermal modelling
- Blue-green roof + rain-garden integration
- Staging & buildability reviews
Interested in resilient design beyond the city? Explore our Principle of Earth Sheltering to see how underground architecture complements our urban work.
