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[Architecture] & [Interior Design]
for New Homes, Renovations and Additions.
Designing enduring, thoughtful, light-filled homes and interiors that respond to the landscape, climate, and the rhythms of daily life.
CONTACT
info@SustainableArchitects.au
0435 626 547
Newstead Studio
(by Appointment only)
HOURS
9am to 5pm Monday – Friday
Castlemaine Hempcrete Home | Architecture & Interior Design
A warm, breathable hempcrete home designed using natural, no/ low-tox materials, lime-rendered walls and timber interiors create an enduring sanctuary for healthy family life.
Abels Bay, Tasmania | Architecture & Interior Design
A humble timber residence, with a mezzanine and lantern form emerging from the rugged coastal landscape.
Daylesford Courtyard Hempcrete Home | Architecture & Interior Design
A solar-passive, courtyard home for a multi-generational family, with interconnected spaces formed from patterns of old ruins. Continuous Hempcrete walls form Blade walls that extend from the interior spaces into the landscape beyond.
Stawell Mechanics Institute, Commercial Fit-out & Mixed Use | Architecture, Heritage, Change of Use
Adaptive reuse & reactivation of the Stawell Mechanics Institute through adaptive reuse, inserting new mezzanine spatial layers within the existing hall to support mixed-use retail and short-term accommodation, carefully navigating heritage constraints and contemporary fire and acoustic compliance.
Lyonville - Home for the Gardener | Architecture & Interior Design
Set within a Bushfire Area with Significant Landscape Overlay, this renovation and extension began with a fundamental question - Rebuild from scratch, or Renew what was already there. Working within a sensitive budget, the design reimagines the existing residence to better capture far-reaching garden/ nature views and moments of atmospheric sunlight .
Campbell Creek Residence | Architecture
Framing the productive gardens and native landscape, where layered light filters through existing trees canopies and the architectural form opens to capture northern light.
A Joyful Extension in Castlemaine | Architecture & Interior Design
A colourful renovation and addition to a modest brick veneer home, transforming the existing structure into a vibrant and playful family space while respecting its original form.
Newstead Residence | Architecture
A series of rural gable volumes connected via glazed & stone circulation links and broadwalks. The spatial arrangement responds directly to topography and solar orientation, establishing controlled apertures, passive shading and solar gain.
St Kilda, Renovation & Alteration
Renovation of a St Kilda home transformed from dark interiors to a light-filled residence, featuring a greenhouse-style extension where kitchen and alfresco spaces merge and open to the rear garden, with a beach-inspired coastal colour palette.
Taradale Small Dwelling — Material Prototype
A modular small dwelling in Taradale testing hempcrete construction systems, exploring expressive form and compact spatial efficiency through low-impact materials.
North Fitzroy - Alterations & Additions
Abels Bay, Tasmania - New Residence | Architecture & Interior Design
A humble timber residence, with a mezzanine and lantern form emerging from the rugged coastal landscape.
Castlemaine - Hempcrete Home & Non-toxic | Architecture & Interior DesignInterior Design
The light-filled house and its interiors were carefully designed with natural and non-toxic materials.
Daylesford - New Residence
A new home in Daylesford shaped by a curved, grounded form and an upturned cantilevered roof that unfolds from the land. The design balances sculptural intent with a resolved and cost-efficient construction approach.
Taradale Hempcrete Home | Bushfire-Resilient Sawtooth Design (BAL Responsive)
Hempcrete home in Taradale with sawtooth roof form opening to solar north, designed for a steep bushfire-prone site with BAL-responsive construction and framing views to surrounding bushland.
Malmsbury, Rammed Earth Home Renovation | Architecture & Interior Design
A renovation of a rammed earth home in Malmsbury, Victoria, using reclaimed bricks, steel, timber and metal sheeting. An owner-built project focused on material reuse and resourceful construction.
Drummond, Hempcrete Residence
An owner-built hempcrete residence in Drummond, designed for a bushfire (BAL) site as a solar passive home. High-level windows and arched forms generate a series of individual courtyard and verandah spaces to each room, shaping light, privacy and climate-responsive living.
Newstead Residence
A series of rural gable volumes connected via glazed & stone circulation links and broadwalks. The spatial arrangement responds directly to topography and solar orientation, establishing controlled apertures, passive shading and solar gain.
Reclaimed Bush Bathroom
An expressive bush bathroom built entirely from reclaimed materials, where structure and enclosure are derived from the reuse of existing timber, metal and salvaged elements within a natural landscape setting.
Courtyard Residence
A residence designed around an internal courtyard garden, creating privacy, natural light, and strong connection between indoor and outdoor spaces.
Malmsbury, New Rammed Earth residence
Owner-built rammed earth residence in Malmsbury, Victoria, combining corten cladding and earthen mass, organised around an existing masonry relic embedded within an internal landscape. Circulation, kitchen, dining and select rooms are oriented inward to this core, while living spaces open outward to surrounding bushland, all bound by a continuous verandah that mediates between interior and landscape.
Renovation & Subdivision, Fitzroy | Architecture
Renovation & Subdivision, Fitzroy
Fabrication, Sculpture, Furniture
& Other works
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