More than multi-disciplinary, it actively seeks to be a space that encourages and supports interaction and collaboration between colleagues, peers from other studios, and even competitors. Challenging the typology of workspaces, it’s a grown-up professionals’ playground: we have a large materials library and studio for making with our hands; room for art installations and prototyping designs; a kitchen and bar of a calibre to rival some of Melbourne’s finest establishments.

The scheme is purposefully neutral to showcase the best in design, creative thinking, collaboration and interaction. There are elements that reveal our studio’s distinct identity, but it needed to remain ‘open’ to allow for diversity in who else uses the space, and how they use it. Greenery in mobile planters create moveable partitions between spaces, and soft, floating textiles do the same, while retaining the feeling of airy openness.

House-like structures were created to sit within the space, enclosing a flexible-use collaboration room, a strategy studio and our materials library and workshop. Warm materials sit alongside cooler serene tones to hit the comfort level of balance. Our spotted gum joinery was predominantly repurposed from our Noma Australia pop-up, and natural fibre goat hair and wool carpets compliment the original hardwood flooring.

Many of our products and materials are sourced locally and sustainably, following the same ethos that we apply to the openness of the space: we welcome and embrace our industry to participate in our space for the benefit of all.

Press –

Rethinking the Future
Green Magazine 
Design Anthology
Indesign Live
Broadsheet Melbourne