Sustainable solutions for the buildings we want to be in.
A practice built on projects that consider how buildings sit in their place — and how they perform once they're lived in.
Jerrin Poovely
Director — Section J
Every building worth thinking about contains a contradiction. More glass means more daylight and worse insulation. A north-facing façade captures winter sun and overheats in summer. The wall that performs best thermally is often the one you least want to build.
I find those tensions genuinely interesting — and I think something is lost when they get flattened into a compliance report. The best outcomes I've seen come from projects where the engineer and the architect are actually talking to each other, early and often, about what the building is trying to be.
From compliance pathways to whole-of-life thinking.
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The most useful work we do is at concept stage — when there's still room for the energy strategy to inform the building, rather than the other way around.
Melbourne, Victoria
Working Australia-wide