Central to our approach is our fascination with creating empathetic buildings and spaces that draw people in. Our philosophy helps to bring these places into form, and is underscored by five pillars:

With Country
Climate Active
Collective Memory
Material Invention
Blurring Boundaries

We recognise our First Nations peoples as the custodians of the world's oldest continuing living cultures and acknowledge their spiritual connection to the land. We listen to their voices as we learn from languages that better describe the Australian landscape and custodianship of place. We work towards reconciling town and Country by expressing First Nations cultural practices, stories, and knowledge within the places we create.

We push the boundaries of traditional design to play our part in averting the twin crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss. For us, the importance and urgency of this work is unparalleled, and in these pursuits, we are driven by a deep desire to act quickly, think fearlessly, and invent relentlessly. 

We create innovations in sustainability, through working across new technological platforms, regenerative design methods, material crafts, and indigenous land practices. We do not do this to satisfy a criteria or to appease. We do this because we have the tools to effect positive change, and believe we have a responsibility to do just that. 

We have an unspoken commitment to the shared experience of the built environment and place great importance on imbuing our cities, towns, and institutions with collective memories and stories of the past. We often begin by investigating, discovering, and recalling history while also projecting into the future. This method allows us to layer the experience with integrity and depth, and place our work within a wider social and cultural context. There is a noticeable feeling to the spaces we create — as if each were to have its own voice and its own energy. By weaving stories of past, present, and future into our places, we encourage curiosity and interaction between the community and its surrounds.

We work at the frontier of building construction and material systems. We have a deep understanding that we must learn to do more with less carbon while creating new efficiencies across time and cost to underscore these advancements. Our interest in making, manufacturing, and fabricating leads us to explore prefabrication, low embodied carbon materials, assembly and disassembly, digital fabrication, and systems founded in building science. We seek unexpected ways of using elemental materials and systems, and we return to the ancient or handcrafted when it aligns with the project vision. Fascinated by material craft, we are ardently engaged in bringing technological advancements together with cultures of making to create spaces that impact the senses and draw people in.

We think strategically about how to design the spaces we work, live, and gather in, acknowledging that these places are subject to constant change. Part of this is shaping the physical world to account for the ways we connect virtually and blurring boundaries between digital and built environments. We envision new ways to bring different disciplines and modes together to enable a deep exchange of information, insights, and to share collective Intelligence. While there are many unanswered questions about how we will inhabit places in the future, our culture of curiosity and inventiveness means we remain open and committed to exploring the unconventional and unknown.