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Richard Kirk Architect (RKA) was established in 1995 by Richard Kirk, Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA).

RKA have expertise in architecture, urban design, interiors and environmentally sustainable design with studios in Brisbane and Shanghai servicing projects in Australia and Asia.

The culture of RKA fosters a collaborative studio where ideas are explored for each project. The practice has a great interest in the role that well made buildings play in the communities and environments they intend to serve.

With each project, RKA works to make evocative places and memorable buildings that are clearly legible in terms of how they are spatially organised and constructed.

The practice has a deep interest in developing construction methods and materials to produce unique buildings that respond directly to each client, brief and circumstance. The practice’s approach to each client’s brief is not just responsive but pro-active.

Decision-making and communication is directly managed by each staff member. Each project has the same team leader for all phases which ensures continual refinement of the ideas, building quality and a single point of contact for the client.

It is through our efforts in the planning process, attention to the detail and an intimate approach during construction that we are confident of making fine architecture at every scale.

Current and recent projects range in values from $0.2M to $1B. The diversity of projects include: furniture, landscape, single residences, interior fitouts, university and school buildings, master planning, infrastructure, urban design, mixed use transport orientated development, comprising adaptive re-use of a heritage listed building, and several new office and residential towers.

The diversity of projects within the practice has developed a robust design sensibility and process.

www.richardkirkarchitect.comRKA is a leader in the use of 3D CAD technology. RKA utilises 3D CAD technology in each project which enables better outcomes through visualisation of our designs to clients, integration of building services and detailed resolution of our designs.

All architectural services are produced within a Quality Assured process. RKA has third-party certification in ISO9001 and a self-attested PQC rating of 3 with the Queensland State Government. This rating is indicative of Industry Best Practice.

Our great interest and commitment to producing significant projects irrespective of size or budget, has been recognised in the awarding of numerous awards for design excellence.

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SIR LLEW EDWARDS BUILDINGBrisbane, Australia2008

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Richard Kirk Architect (RKA) was the successful architect in the short listed design competition for the Sir Llew Edwards Building in 2004.

The six level building contains a wide range of teaching spaces including: seminar rooms, staff offices, student resource areas, a 250 square metre auditorium and a function room opening out onto landscaped roof terraces. The lower two floors include specialist training spaces where both the design of the spaces

(layouts, fixed furniture etc.) and the integration of advanced AV equipment enable the university to utilise for the first time, new advances in teaching methodology.

The building is located overlooking the main forecourt of the University and figures prominently in the redevelopment of this important area for the University. It is the first building to be constructed in this prestigious location in 30 years.

The project design responds to the site by addressing its largely landscaped setting and the surrounding buildings. The building’s success is in the manner in which it engages with the existing campus master plan and the way in which it provides the University with a new building typology that exemplifies significant advances in the inclusion of Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) features.

Uniquely for a building on the campus, the Sir Llew Edwards Building presents a five storey high glazed screen on its main public façade which not only enables the University to display its operations more overtly, but also enables occupants to enjoy long distance views to West End and the mountain ranges beyond.

The building has adopted best practice ESD principles (natural day lighting, rainwater re-use and monitoring).

AWARDS:

2009 AIA FDG Stanley Award for Public Architecture

2009 AIA Regional Commendation

2008 IES Lighting Design Award of Excellence

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ADVANCED ENGINEERING BUILDING Brisbane, Australia2009

The $130 million Advanced Engineering Building (AEB) was awarded to Richard Kirk Architect (RKA) and Hassell joint venture through a design competition. The AEB will establish a new benchmark for sustainability and explore new possibilities for teaching and learning spaces.

AEB is an exciting and transformative opportunity. The vision for the AEB project is to create a building to celebrate, collaborate, create, learn, innovate and sustain, all within an integrated engineering landscape.

AEB is designed to stimulate innovation, education and awareness of advanced materials and manufacturing processes.

The structure of the building will be as open as possible, to allow a high level of visibility of processes and equipment to

visitors and staff alike.

AEB will facilitate the transformation of engineering education through all aspects of research, postgraduate training and undergraduate education.

UQ BUSINESS SCHOOL Brisbane, Australia2010

Richard Kirk Architect (RKA) + Hassell in joint venture were the successful architects in a limited design competition for the University of Queensland Business School (UQBS).

The new UQBS building will occupy a prominent site in the University forecourt within the existing campus master plan while establishing a new identity for the Business School.

The UQBS building will be:- Cultural and Communal- Authentic and of its place- Interconnected with the landscape- Transparent

The general layout and planning for UQBS is organised in two volumes that joined by a central atrium at the heart of the building.

Functional areas are located horizontally and vertically to create a communal building with consideration to the hierarchy of the Business School.

The building will be an open, interactive and connected facility offering business knowledge leadership with global reach. The outward focus of the school will forge a culture of collaboration, effective and innovative learning; a place for sharing and engagement with the business community to ultimately be the portal between academia and business at UQ.

UQBS will be a 5-star Green Star rated building that will have numerous ESD initiatives integral to the design including operable facade systems, mixed-mode ventilation, solar array and rainwater harvesting.

QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES PRECINCT 2Brisbane, Australia2011

Creative Industries Precinct 2 (CIP2) has been conceived to provide a unified address for the Creative Industries Faculty comprising Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts including Research and technical pursuits. CIP2 will be connected to the existing CIP stage 1 to become a singular identity and gateway for Students and staff associated with the Bachelor of Creative Industries.

Our vision for CIP2 is to create a place that anchors the creative

industries into a cohesive village environment offering a rich and diverse sequence of spatial experiences to stimulate learning and social interaction. A key part of the concept is the placement of primary circulation paths, meeting areas, cafe and common areas to the precincts building edges with the lot 2 building incorporating a highly visible student ‘street’ to which studio spaces are addressed. The street will be the place that student groups congregate between studio sessions to

give a real sense of vitality and movement. It is intended for this 3 storey high space to be interactive with the outdoor environment and include a series of cascading stairs and staggered voids to enable visual links to the upper levels.

The precinct development strategy is to introduce a new high profile faculty building up to 5 storeys to be located on Lot 2 between the southern end of Gona parade to the east and Kelvin Grove Road to the west,

opposite the northern landmark building known as ‘The Hub’. The location of this building is seen to be one of the highest profile opportunities for QUT in the Kelvin Grove campus. The two buildings will combine to create a Gateway for QUT and more specifically the Creative Industries Precinct. Within CIP2, the new building forms the northern arm of a series of single storey heritage buildings to be retained and upgraded.

The heritage buildings frame Chauvel Place to complete an activate ‘L’ shaped edge for CIP2.

ABC HEADQUARTERS Brisbane, Australia2011

Richard Kirk Architect were commissioned for the new ABC Headquarters at South Bank, Brisbane.

Placing emphasis on the relationship between technology and people, the ABC Headquarters will be a stimulating and healthy work

environment that is flexible to change with the future demands of the National broadcaster.

The importance of ensuring a degree of flexibility and future proofing of the development reflects the unique requirements and needs of the deadline-driven media industry.

The prominent and public nature of the South Bank site will result in the ABC Headquarters’ public spaces being open and transparent.

As the ABC is a public institution, the creation of public spaces reinforce the sense of public ownership and promotes a sense

of community within the building, which will enable informal interactions amongst building users who would otherwise be spread separately across many floors and different areas.

The new ABC Headquarters will incorporate ESD principles and has achieved a 5-Star Green

Star rating with the Green Building Council of Australia.

ANTING NEW TOWN SCHOOL Shanghai, China2011

ALBION FLOUR MILL MASTERPLAN & REDEVELOPMENT Brisbane, Australia2008

Albion Flour Mill Redevelopment and Masterplan is a mixed-use integrated commercial, residential, community and retail development, with excellent access to the Albion railway station.

This project will facilitate development of ‘The Mill, Albion’, on the obsolete Albion Flour Mill site and adjoining sites at Hudson Road and Albion Road.

This major redevelopment site is adjacent to the existing Albion Village centre and the Albion

railway station, and represents an urban renewal opportunity with significant transit oriented outcomes. The proposal will provide benefits to not just the local area, but to the city as a whole.

The proposal incorporates a range of integrated uses including high density residential, commercial and retail uses, designed in an integrated scheme around a network of public spaces, including streets, plazas and public transport. The development is directly linked

to Albion railway station and has a significant interaction with the existing Albion Village centre and areas west of the rail corridor.

Retention and re-use of the heritage Flour Mill building as a coherent part of the overall redevelopment is a principal objective to help preserve the cultural significance of the area and create a landmark feature for the historic site.

The heritage Mill building and the grain silos have been retained and are effectively

integrated with the contemporary design of the remainder of the proposal. Sight lines from within the site and throughout adjoining areas have been retained to the heritage Mill building and the silos.

The Albion Flour Mill Redevelopment design incorporates best practice ESD principles through the ABGR and Green Star rating systems.

NATIONAL WWI & WWII MEMORIALS Canberra, Australia2008

Richard Kirk Architect (RKA) won an international design competition for the National WWI & WWII Memorials.

WWI and WWII memorials: For those who served; who died; who mourned at home.

The monuments are contemplated as enduring symbols of loss, separation and sacrifice.

The memorials’ design avoids overt symbolism, narrative or the figurative. The design intent for the memorials is for them to appear as though they have always been in place at the site and that they have evolved into their proposed form there.

They are deliberately neutral and abstract to allow many meanings as well as creating their own inherent and unique quality of commemoration specific to

the events and the impact on Australia in the past and into the future.

The design process uses the neutral forms of the monolithic blocks or obelisks and then uses the sun’s position in the sky at significant times to make the resulting form through a carving and removal process.

Cuts and slices are made through the blocks using the sun’s location on key dates and times of the important events during the two world wars.

CUTTING EDGE Brisbane, Australia2004

In 1999, Richard Kirk Architect (RKA) was awarded the Cutting Edge project through competition. Cutting Edge is a 4,500 square metre film and television post-production facility.

It is located on the Brisbane River and has frontage to Davies Park in West End. The four level building contains a wide range of flexible work spaces including: staff offices, audio rooms and booths, studio spaces, digital suites, multimedia suites, visual effects suites, a theatrette for 60 people and a restaurant for 140 people.

In addition to dealing with a diverse functional brief, the spaces were also required to have an inherent degree of flexibility to enable them to change along with future advances in technology and media types. In response to this, all servicing is exposed to allow ease of modification and retrofitting.

The project design responds to the site by addressing its largely landscaped setting. Due to the client’s programmatic requirements, the building design required four planning relaxations (site cover, height, setbacks, and car parking numbers), all of which were achieved in recognition of

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the building’s design sensitive contextual response.

The building adopts best practice ESD principles where they were demonstrated as suitable to the commercial context of this project.

AWARDS:

2004 RAIA Beatrice Hutton Award for Commercial Architecture

2004 RAIA Regional Building of the Year

2004 RAIA Regional Commendation Commendation

DUNCAN STREET MASTERPLAN & REDEVELOPMENT Brisbane, Australia2003

RKA won a limited design competition for the redevelopment of a three hectare light industrial site on the Brisbane River in West End for medium density residential accommodation.

The site is the largest land holding in the West End Riverside South Precinct, constituting a significant component of the current redevelopment of this part of Brisbane.

The design concept challenges conventional development models, with buildings running perpendicular to the river to achieve improved solar orientation. Between the buildings, substantial riverside landscaping forms linear parks which offer improved amenity and river views for accommodation towards the rear portion of the deep site.

The large site is articulated by the proposed new road resumptions which create two parcels of land. To link the sites, a significant landscape space is used to visually connect the separated parcels.

These landscape spaces contain large water features or lagoons, which are idealised memories of the Riverine Rainforest that once occupied this area.

LEARNING INNOVATION BUILDING Brisbane, Australia 2010

The site is located on the St Lucia campus and is part of a well established and significant precinct of the university Master Plan. The site has significant prominence in the University campus. Well established relationships and links with the existing campus roads, Great Court, the Circular Drive and the open green space adjacent to the Brisbane River had to be considered in the design process.

The site is positioned between existing occupied buildings, some of which are heritage listed as part of the Great Court Complex.

The proposed building is a four storey high educational facility providing accommodation for three university departments. The spaces provided include experimental seminar/teaching spaces, office/administration spaces, meeting/boardrooms, media editing suites and staff support facilities. A studio

or atelier space termed the ‘Innovation Laboratory’ will form the focus for various department specific activities. A three storey high void space will link the horizontal floor plates vertically, improve the internal environment and contribute to the efficiency of the building.

The design process intends to maintain and improve ‘hidden’ or secondary pedestrian links to surrounding spaces and buildings. Public courtyard space adds to an existing

sequence of external spaces within the campus, including the Great Court.

Our approach is to achieve a design that is sensitive to surrounding heritage buildings, pedestrian links and campus activity. As a result the external form is complex and reacts to the shape of the surrounding buildings. A number of the façades are highly transparent to display internal activities to the wider campus.

Views of the campus, river,

eastern suburbs and the Green Bridge will be available from the upper levels of the proposed scheme. Openings in the external envelope have been positioned to frame external views and to maximise daylighting to the interior of the building.

FITZGIBBON CHASE COMMUNITY CENTRE Brisbane, Australia2011

This centre for the new community of Fitzgibbon Chase is a response to the suburban landscape within which it is sited. The regenerated bushland fringe of the site has been used as an unregulated dumping ground for vehicles and other refuse, which has over time degraded the landscape. The Fitzgibbon Community Centre design responds to this treatment in built form, by redefining and redeeming this relationship to the

landscape as a piece of artwork within the environment.

The building addresses its street frontage without being sited on the street, with its facade line modified to incorporate the rare remaining trees on site. This in turn helps with the building programme of a mixed use cultural centre incorporating allied health, offices, meeting spaces, retail and community halls.

The ‘heart’ of the scheme is a large open covered space, which forms a gateway on the axis from the new commercial centre of Fitzgibbon to the bushland tracks and trails to the North. This gateway acts as a starting and finishing point for the trails, with essential amenities and a retail outlet.

While formally abstract and demure the centre makes provocative use of materials, which highlight it as a future

landmark in the community. The building is fringed by sculptural blades of weathering steel, a material that responds to the corroded car bodies once found on site. These blades form a rippled screen to the street which reveals glimpses through the building when approached by vehicle. Behind this oxidised screen, the building is clad in stained plywood with ample operable glazing to allow natural ventilation, and large

overhangs to provide natural lighting without overheating. This use of naturally weathering materials and passive climate controls allow the Fitzgibbon Community Centre to evolve and respond over time to its suburban landscape.

GOLD COAST RAPID TRANSIT Gold Coast, Australia2010

The Gold Coast Rapid Transit is a light rail system, running between Parkwood and Broadbeach (approx.17km) generally within existing road corridors. While the trains would be segregated from existing traffic lanes along most of its route, for short distances they would share road space with other vehicles. The project may form the first stage of a more extensive tram system for the Gold Coast. The locations of up to 16 tram stations have been identified along the route, with major transport interchanges at key locations.

During peak hours, services could run every 6 minutes with off-peak services every 20 minutes.

The project is being delivered by the Queensland Government (through the Department of Transport and Main Roads) in partnership with the Australian Government and Gold Coast City Council. The Gold Coast Rapid Transit project has secured funding commitments totalling AUD$949 million from three levels of government. The Queensland Government short-listed three consortia to partake in a Request for

Proposal process with the aim to award a design, construct and operate contract for the Gold Coast Rapid Transit.

Clare Design + Richard Kirk Architect (CD+RKA) provided lead design services to one consortium bidding for the Gold Coast Rapid Transit project. The purpose of involving CD+RKA was to provide the consortium with access to high quality design leadership to ensure the built elements of the project will be delivered to high standard commensurate with the significance of the project for the Gold Coast.

ABORIGINAL AND ISLANDER INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL Brisbane, Australia 2001

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Richard Kirk Architect (RKA) was commissioned to develop a long-term masterplan and staging strategy for the Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School, which caters to the needs of the broader Indigenous community of Brisbane’s south west.

The school previously occupied the site and buildings of a former Queensland state school. A detailed needs assessment found these buildings to be badly sited and inadequate for the school’s future requirements.

Primarily, the new masterplan aims to address the need for additional accommodation due to the dramatic growth in student numbers, the need for culturally appropriate building form and spaces, and the need to relocate the school away from a major road.

In addition, the masterplanning process found the form and design of the current building stock to be inappropriate for occupation by Indigenous students and teachers, and so the need for an alternative

approach to that of standard school designs was identified. Specifically, the School required spaces that were well grounded, located close to the landscape, and had a sense of openness and transparency. Over time, the site planning, building forms, materials, and details will work in conjunction to give the school its own identity as an important landmark facility within the broader Indigenous community.

Stage one of the masterplan, comprising four separate buildings, was recently

completed by RKA. These consist of two general learning buildings for Years 1- 5, a kitchen and amenities building and an Arts and Science Facility with associated landscaping.

AWARDS:

2006 Australian Steel Institute Award

ABORIGINAL AND ISLANDER INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL MULTI PURPOSE HALL Brisbane, Australia2010

The AIICS Multi Purpose Hall and extension to the amenities building is the continuation of new building work as part of RKA’s long term masterplan and staging strategy for the Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School. The Multi Purpose Hall is located on the northern side of the school grounds and is the first building encountered when approaching from the main pedestrian axis through the school.

The materiality and structural concept is in keeping with the previous school buildings at AIICS by RKA, with the primary steel structure expressed to reveal its careful detailing and structural efficiency. The structure is deliberately simple and repetitive, supporting a large mono-pitched roof. This skillion roof is a large rainwater catchment area which leads to rainwater tanks that provide landscape irrigation the entire school.

To the north of the Multi Purpose Hall, paired steel downpipes align with the structural grid and splay outwardly to support the bespoke eaves gutter fabricated from plate steel. Aramax roof sheeting was selected for its spanning capacity and unique aesthetic. Its deep profile enables the roof sheeting to span unsupported between steel portals therefore eliminating the need for roof purlins. The cantilevering roof overhangs provide

shelter to the external spaces surrounding the Multi Purpose Hall and presents a fine edge to the most prominent part of the building. Perforated Aramax sheeting is used internally on the ceiling to provide consistent finish overhead and acoustic attenuation.

Vertical bi-fold doors span between the steel portals to encourage activities within the Multi Purpose Hall to spill outdoors as well as natural cross ventilation with the operable

louvres to the south. Two entry structures are defined by steel portals to the west. The diminished scale of the entry portals is complimented by the extensive use of timber and natural materials to provide a sensitive treatment to the entry sequence and illuminated display cabinets.

AWARDS

2010 Australian Steel Institute Award Winner

2010 Australian Steel Institute Award High Commendation

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TINBEERWAH RESIDENCE Noosa, Australia 2011

The Tinbeerwah Residence is a semi-rural retreat located in the Sunshine Coast hinterland for an international Client.

The design of the residence continues Richard Kirk Architect’s commitment to

simplicity of form and planning. There is a great emphasis on material qualities, with a shared commitment between the Client and Architect to produce a residence that will age and improve over time.

Siting of the residence has been carefully considered to respond to environmental conditions, and to control the transition from the designed landscape of the residence to the natural bushland beyond.

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ROSALIE HOUSE Brisbane, Australia 2010

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Rosalie House by Richard Kirk Architect (RKA) is located in one of Brisbane’s most established inner city suburbs. This 5-bedroom family home sits on a hillside among the peaks and gullies that characterises the suburb of Paddington.

Rosalie House has a solid base that rises up as a 3-storey lightweight structure. The exterior is predominantly recycled Tallowwood weatherboard and pre-weathered zinc cladding – RKA’s interpretation of the timber and tin tradition that is prevalent in the area.

Sun-shading and privacy is achieved with operable timber screens and external venetian blinds that sit in front of a bespoke timber window joinery.

The planning of the house is organised to address the views towards the city on the North-East and Mt Coot-tha on the South-West. The resulting building footprint provides private courtyards and landscaped terraces adjacent to the main living spaces.

The interior is an ensemble of Red Mahogany timber flooring and Jarrah timber panelling on backdrop of white plaster walls and white-set ceilings.

Environmental features of the house include solar hot water, 40,000L in-ground rainwater storage for landscape irrigation and low energy lighting.

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ARBOUR HOUSE Brisbane, Australia2009

The Arbour House, located on the Bulimba Reach of the Brisbane River, is a study in siting and intricate articulation to yield views and landscape connections.

The long 13 metre wide site is located between two key public spaces; an established Arbour of fig trees to the south, and a public riverfront boardwalk to the north.

Unlike other riverfront houses, the new dwelling is sited a respectful distance from the river edge, preserving an 80 year old Poinciana tree and historic public views from the boardwalk of the adjoining heritage listed dwelling.

The large setback creates a platform for a private garden under the shade of the Poinciana canopy. The levels of the garden platform and the Arbour, establish the two datums for the setout of public and private

spaces for the dwelling. The public riverfront living levels, to the north, are adjacent to the garden platform, while the living spaces are elevated above the garage to look into the canopy of the Arbour, to the south. The private bedroom spaces of the upper level afford views of the Arbour tree canopy and river yet privacy from the public river boardwalk.

The dwelling adopts a courtyard typology with two pavilions linked by a large double height

stairwell and external courtyard. The form is conceptualised as an object carved from a solid volume of the allowable building area with the courtyard providing a protective volume from which to cross ventilate each of the spaces of the house and to allow the different spaces of the house connection but also discrete and subtle separation – the family home as a village.

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AWARDS:

2010 RAIA Regional Commendation

2010 Australian Timber Design Award

HIGHGATE HILL RESIDENCE Brisbane, Australia 2007

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The Highgate Hill Residence is located on a south facing ravine adjacent to one of Brisbane’s oldest ridgeline roads – Dornoch Terrace. The steepness of the rectangular site has resulted in a verdant and mature landscape consisting of a mixture of native and exotics, which created the opportunity to place the house within a rich landscape environment.

As a result of the steepness of the site and the desire to connect the house to an outdoor ground plane the house adopts two distinct identities – the North (landscape) and East (street)

is a diminutive floating single level volume hovering over fine steel pins – the South and West (distant views) the vertical and monumental character reveals of the tall three level residence.

To the North and East, the living level embraces the landscape as the upper level hovers over the ground plane as a protective canopy. In these areas, where the building is more intimate, the materials and detailing are deliberately fine and diminutive. Fine vertical timber members screen the building’s upper level to the street provide a veiled public façade that works as a

series of layers laid over the building volume. The upper level of the Northern walls have a façade of glazed vertical timber mullions or sticks which open the interior to the landscape and the filtered northern light through the tree canopies. To integrate the landscape with the living spaces on the middle level, the external openings are of a significant scale so that the internal floor plate opens up completely to the outdoor spaces. To celebrate the transition from interior to exterior, the East and North facing walls open completely via series of stacking sliding glazed timber panels.

The rectangular form of the house is organised over three levels with the middle level containing living and dining spaces and also the point of entry from the street. The upper level contains all the bedrooms and a void that is located over the dining area. The lower level contains a guest room and a media space. The void within the house acts not only as a spatial device to orient and extenuate the verticality of the tall trees outside, but also separates bedrooms of the parents and children. The stair is an important organisational reference between the levels and

is treated as a sculptural element that twists slightly within the void to allow its form to visually link all levels.

In response to the dominance of the landscape, the house is entirely clad in timber and uses timber glazed façade systems where each species is selected to age in response to its orientation and weathering.

WILSTON RESIDENCE Brisbane, Australia2006

The sloping East-West axis site is located in Wilston, one of the older inner city suburbs of Brisbane. The project involves the addition of a separate but attached building to the original 1930s residence.

The original residence was simply stripped back to its essential core by removing all of the recent additions to allow the retention of its formal qualities within the site and its engagement with the street.

The distinct separation of the new and old allow the new work to directly engage with the landscape and ground plane.

The separate addition, although attached, is treated as a pavilion and is placed in the existing garden space at the rear of the site. The new pavilion contains living spaces on the ground floor with sleeping spaces on the upper level.

All spaces have a northerly outlook and a strong visual connection with the garden spaces of the adjacent sites. The original residence contains the main bedroom spaces and a study.

The Northern façade is presented as a piece of timber joinery of teak, western red cedar and New Guinea Rosewood contained

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under a folding roof. This façade addresses the garden space which is treated as a room edged by the pool, deck and reed bed.

The living space has a 10 metre wide opening to the garden with the projecting bedrooms on the upper level creating a delicate hovering volume above.

The functional differentiation of the glazing systems articulates the main building form.

AWARDS:

2007 RAIA State Commendation

2007 RAIA Regional Commendation

2007 Australian Timber Design Award

ELYSIUM 176 Noosa, Australia 2008

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Among a select group of leading architects, Richard Kirk Architect (RKA) was engaged to design a number of houses in Pearson Property Group’s Elysium Noosa residential development.

Elysium is an opportunity to create a family of houses that capture the essence of the north coast lifestyle. The houses are planned with simplicity and an emphasis on generous indoor/outdoor spaces.

Each house boldly occupies its site and includes a naturally lit outdoor room contained within the main volume.

The outdoor room provides an internal focus visually and functionally. The inside and outside are united by seamless transitions and the consistent use of a restrained palette of materials.

Materials are generally timbers left to weather naturally, rhinezinc, and self-finished oxide renders which will improve their appearance with time, allowing the houses to merge with the landscape.

AWARDS:

2009 Australian Timber Design Award

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AWARDS

2010 RAIA Regional Commendation (Arbour House)

2010 Australian Timber Design Award (Arbour House)

2010 Australian Steel Institute Award Winner (AIICS Multi Purpose Hall)

2010 Australian Steel Institute Award High Commendation (AIICS Multi Purpose Hall)

2009 Australian Timber Design Award (Elysium Lot 176)

2009 AIA FDG Stanley Award for Public Architecture (GPN4)

2009 AIA Regional Commendation (GPN4)

2009 AIA Regional Commendation (Urban)

2008 IES Lighting Design Award of Excellence (GPN4)

2008 RAIA State Commendation (800 Gympie)

2008 RAIA Regional Commendation (800 Gympie)

2008 RAIA Regional Commendation (Periocare)

2007 RAIA State Commendation (Wilston Residence)

2007 RAIA Regional Commendation (Wilston Residence)

2007 Australian Timber Design Award (Wilston Residence)

2006 RAIA High Commendation Interior Architecture (Boe Lawyers)

2006 RAIA Regional Commendation (Boe Lawyers)

2006 Australian Steel Institute Award (Aboriginal + Islander Independent Community School)

2004 RAIA Beatrice Hutton Award for Commercial Architecture (Cutting Edge)

2004 RAIA Regional Building of the Year (Cutting Edge)

2004 RAIA Regional Commendation (Cutting Edge)

2004 RAIA Interior Architecture Award (Hopkins + Clarke)

2004 RAIA State Commendation (Hopkins + Clarke)

2004 RAIA Regional Commendation (Hopkins + Clarke)

2003 RAIA Regional Commendation (Dornoch Terrace Residence)

2002 RAIA Regional House of the Year (Deception Bay Housing)

2002 RAIA Regional Commendation (Deception Bay Housing)

2002 RAIA Regional Commendation (Hawthorne Residence)

2001 RAIA High Commendation (Griffin Street Duplexes)

2001 RAIA Regional Commendation (Inala Housing)

2001 RAIA Regional Commendation (Griffin Street Duplexes)

2000 National Community Housing Commendation for Innovation (Toolar Street Housing)

2000 RAIA Regional Commendation (Toolar Street Housing)

2000 RAIA Regional Commendation (Thornlands Medical Centre)

1997 RAIA Regional Commendation (Caloundra Redevelopment)

1997 DPWH Tropical Housing

PUBLICATIONS

‘Breathing Space’, Houses, Issue 19, 1999, p. 26.

‘Outdoor Volume’, Houses, Issue 30, 2002, p. 37–40

Michell, G & Gollings, J 2003, ‘Outdoor Room’, New Australian Style 2, Thames and Hudson.

Thomson, S 2003, ‘Hopkins + Clark’, Artichoke, Issue 05 Vol.02.

Baird, I (ed.) 2004, The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, Phaidon Press Ltd, London.

Macarthur, J 2004, ‘Sweet Whiteness’, Architecture Australia, Vol.93 No.4.

Edgar, R 2006, ‘House and Land Repackaging’, Monument, Issue 70, p. 20–21

Horswill, A 2006, ‘Architects Follow Tree Changers’, The Courier-Mail, 10 June, p. 18.

Rollo, J 2006 ‘Cutting Edge’, C+A, Issue 2.

House & Garden, 2007 ‘Maximum Minimalism: Top 50 rooms’.

‘Domestic Bliss’, Australian Financial Review, 9–11 November, 2007, p. L19

Jackson, D 2007, Next Wave: Emerging Talents in Australian Architecture, Thames and Hudson.

Wall, E 2007, ‘Paired Pavilions’, Houses, Issue 57, p. 33–38

‘Queensland’, Better Homes and Gardens, November 2007, p. 122–123

Beaver, R 2008, ‘Highgate Hill Residence’ in 100 Dream Houses From Down Under, Images Publishing, Mulgrave, Victoria, p. 176–179.

Burton Taylor, J 2008, ‘Rear Vision’, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 January, p. 26–27

Hampsen, A & Foley, S 2008, ‘Modern Queenslander’, Monument, Issue 86, p. 48–53

Lord, C 2008, ‘Timberland’, The Courier Mail. p. 46–47.

Muhling, A 2008, Brisbane Magazine, Issue 06, p. 28

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