iredale pedersen hook are an emerging Australian architecture practice with offices in Perth and Melbourne and a rapidly expanding diverse body of work scattered throughout Australia. From the winery region of Victoria’s Yarra Valley, to the desert of the North Kimberly region, through the suburbs of Melbourne and Perth, from the urban centre of Sydney to the far reaches of Christmas Island the projects are as diverse and eclectic as the landscape they occupy. Each piece of architecture seeks to embody a unique design response of innovation and delight. There is no house style. If necessary the works can be gathered in relation to their geographical location, but the projects actually belong to a collection of thematic concerns that evolve and develop. The firm is dedicated to the pursuit of appropriate design of effective sustainable buildings with a responsible environmental and social agenda.
The practice operates around three very different individuals with three very different approaches to their work, however it proves to be a very complementary assemblage due to the collaborative skills of all the partners. Iredale is the artist who draws incessantly and produces beautiful watercolours of the conceptual ideas within each project, Pedersen provides the social conscience for the team as his strong environmental bias is underpinned by a functional elegance, Hook on the other hand is the academic; direct, pragmatic and seeks clarity in each scheme.
The architecture of iredale pedersen hook emerges from a landscape that is dominated by the horizon. In Australia the desert and the ocean operate as constant counterpoints to the occupation of land by built objects. Our work shares an understanding of an edge condition that is described by remote locations, incredible sites and the centre of the peripheral.
Emanating from Perth, Western Australia iredale pedersen hook certainly understand the extent of Australia’s geographic isolation from the ‘rest of the world’. They are not intimidated by this rather their architecture seeks to engage the opportunities the ‘New World’ offers, primarily the ability to build quickly and boldly, resulting in over 350 projects in nine years. They maintain a sophisticated knowledge of the international to sustain the importance and relevance of the local.
iredale pedersen hook approach each project with an intention to exploit the constraints of each situation. They are interested in the pursuit of innovation through design and the production of engaging buildings by doing extraordinary things with ordinary means and economic materials.
iredale pedersen hook architects February 2009
Opportunistic Suburb iredale pedersen hook have produced a collection of projects that explore the issue of densification and urban regeneration of Perth’s older suburbs. We are interested in the transformation of housing in the Australian suburb allowing the old dwelling to reengage with north, opening to sunlight and climate, responding to new ideas of lifestyle and exterior living. The alterations and additions seek to exploit what the old house provides, using what is there to generate a new architectural language with the intention to recalibrate the suburb; adjusting it to embrace a new life.
Referential Landcsape The projects serve to read the Australian landscape in a way that is not obvious or complacent. Each project constructs a reality that is apparent in plan, recounts a story or perhaps reflects a cinematic approach to space, aspect and journey. They also explore a West Australian idea of distance and time where the length of journey is not consistent with its duration; the idea of the collapse of time in the Australian landscape. A wide open road and broad horizon, under a huge blue sky.
Reynolds Residence South Perth
The Means of Economy Our architecture explores notions of economy in material and space. We challenge the premise that architectural quality must be expensive and seek to do extraordinary things with ordinary means and materials. The construction method and detailing of projects responds to ideas of utility and pragmatics driven by remote locations, robust environments and stringent budgets. We do not believe that the idea of economy means ‘cheap’ it embodies concepts of restraint and parsimony through appropriate selection of materials, considered dimensions of space and design solutions that embrace constraint.
Innocent Bystander Winery Healseville
Environmental Construct Environmentally sustainable design is common sense not a luxury and should be common practice for all Australian architects. At iredale pedersen hook we believe it must be achieved by applying the concepts of energy efficiency, life-cycle costing, waste management and careful selection of materials to produce design solutions that address ‘triple bottom line’ auditing principles. Green does not have to be expensive it is a discussion of appropriate action rather than technological innovation. Rather than framing our work around the ‘ESD’ tag we view sustainability as embodiment of our ideas and the core agenda of the practice and its manifestation is apparent in all projects.
Social Sustainability iredale perdersen hook embrace the proposition that development of community is the only way that society can move forward effectively. Community demands an architecture of respect and restraint; not restraint of ideas or expression, but restraint in the imposition of an inappropriate architecture onto an existing condition. Our work seeks to explore the development of respect for place, people, context, and our collective inheritance; built fabric and natural environment.
Walmajarri Community Centre Western Australia
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This small residential project explores the uniquely Australian architectural typology of the ‘Backyard Reno(vation)’. Grated onto the rear of a 1930’s brick bungalow this design reinterprets the local architectural tradition of the addition or ‘lean to’. Stretching over the length of the site the new space deflects in plan and section towards the northern sun. The bullnose like roof form of the addition wraps back above the floor level capturing a new volume, which opens to the garden and hovers providing a shelf for the hifi and an external seat to enjoy those late sunny Perth afternoons. This dynamic spatial quality contrasts the stiffness of the original dwelling; a constructed suburban Jekyll and Hyde.
Reynolds Residence
Plan The Yarra Valley is an emerging wine region about an hour east of Melbourne, this new winery and cellar door complex is located in the main street of Healesville, the region’s local centre. A strong formal gesture the architecture evolves from a diagram that turns wine production into bands of program. Elevated as a long textured concrete wall the external face of the facility is both evocative and defensive. The concrete box locks into a timber clad cellar door that upon entry seeks to reveal the complexity and alchemy of winemaking through a massive wall of glass that provides a section through the barrel store and processing facility.
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A small extension to a city edge house this project creates a language of new parts by manipulating and exaggerating existing qualities of the dwelling to form an sympathetic dialogue between old and new whilst exploiting every part of the site. A long axis is defined then intersected, folded and punctured strategically revealing fragments of space. Decoration of the ceiling of the old building reflects the heirachy of space. The new space continues this elaboration of the ceiling but transforms it into a spatial event literally unfolding to allow north sun within and the poetic embrace of the garden. A strategy of ‘sleeving’ harmonises the transition from old to new allowing the two different architectures to co-exist.
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Situated deep in the Darling escarpment, east of Perth this project explores the potential for formal, material and spatial connections to the existing landscape at both a macro and micro level. It adopts a rural approach to isolation using distance and existing bushland as privacy. One side is embedded in the carved hill the other side by contrast is suspended above the landscape, a dualism which is explored throughout. Engaging the existing central spine the house is opened to the landscape and extended over the site. The architecture seeks to extract the potential of place in a multiplicity of experience, living under 1 2 3 4 5 the house, bathing in the floor, suspended on the edge, framing alternative fragments of distant views.
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Plan iph was chosen by the Djugerari community to design an office, training centre and staff house for Walmajarri Inc., an Aboriginal Corporation representing a group of Walmajarri people whose country is located in the Great Sandy Desert. The building is a simple cluster of pavilions under a large parasol roof that initially appears informally placed. However as one moves between the pavilions through covered exterior spaces specific views are framed and moments in the dramatic landscape are revealed. The remote location forced a simple language of durable materials and direct detailing. It is within the careful assemblage of these simple components that the architecture emerges.
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iph collaborated with a large Perth firm, Jones Coulter Young to win an open design competition for an 86 unit environmentally sustainable apartment block accommodating single youth, families and the aged. The apartments are sited on a recessed glazed plinth of commercial tenancies and are wrapped one unit deep around three sides of a secluded private garden. A white concrete ribbon folds to frame each side of the eight storey south slab, the three storey eastern wing and the seven story northwest tower. Screened and shuttered balconies provide all units with flexible outdoor living areas. Artwork is integrated into the concrete skin of the building to articulate the dominant facades to the streetscape.
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Located in a small coastal holiday town south of Perth this award winning house will eventually become a place of retirement. It desires a sense of comfort and a strong capacity to identify with this residence as ‘home’. The sense of enjoyment will not come from weekend stays but from being part of an everchanging environment, experiencing the change in day, night, the seasons and the years. Hovering over the landscape this very cheap building engages many environmental principles to demonstrate that ecologically based decision making can be incorporated without the sacrifice of clear architectural expression and that such solutions can also be economical.
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This project forms part of the practice’s ongoing work for Perth Zoo. Designed to establish connections between Orang-utan behaviour, living patterns and qualities of their natural environment this new enclosure consists of a series of ‘trees’ that simulate the physical complexities of a rainforest. This is achieved through a careful assemblage of recycled concrete pylons and robust steel ‘branches’ and climbing frames. Each tree holds double decker nests with timber and steel shading structures providing points of rest. This, along with a collection of activities; puzzle boxes, dip tubes, water canoes, drinkers, the bent steel armatures and ropes are able to be tuned to create a constantly changing, stimulating environment.
Perth Zoo Orang-utan Enclosure
The ‘Field house’ is basically a small guesthouse for people to stay in when they visit an Anthony Gormley art installation called ‘Inside Australia’ which was commissioned as part of 2002 Perth International Arts Festival. The project is situated on the edge of a huge salt lake about 800km North West of Perth. The project expresses a poetic reading of the landscape, an experience of a remote Australian climate combined with a directness of form and simple elegant gestures. Together the project becomes embedded in its context but clear in its intent, allowing the artwork to exist while being framed by the architecture. IPH were also engaged as consultants to help the artist to fabricate and install the work.
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Plan Tjuntjunjara Community Houses, located in the Great Victorian Desert, were developed in close consultation with the Spinifex people over 3 separate workshops involving all members of the community and a team including an anthropologist, architect, engineer and staff members. Two final designs were 0 1 community 2 3 4 5 selected; an “L� shaped plan form and a centric plan form with a breezeway living area. These buildings were designed to be simple and robust, and to support a variety of living patterns around and inside the buildings parts. All of the houses align on a radial axis focusing on the new community meeting shelter. Locations of individual houses relate to the actual direction of the family members specific homeland. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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Axonometric Located in rolling hills of Victoria’s ‘Spa Country’, the Sheep House is embedded firmly in the rich red earth. Appearing as a line across the landscape, the house is essentially a long thin volume of accommodation opening to the North. A deflection in plan creates a sense of enclosure to the South defining an exterior ‘room’ of manufactured landscape captured from the paddock. A lawn circle and a gravel circle counteract the linearity of the building. As an object the house seeks to provide a solid relationship with its site. As a series of spaces it opens out to the landscape but maintains definition. As a place to live it is robust enough to accommodate total indulgence without concern.
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Plan The Greening Australia WA Headquarters is an opportunity to demonstrate that Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) can be economically viable, produce a stimulating office environment and such design is available to all. The building is a cluster of low pavilions arranged around a central covered informal outdoor activity area that uses cooling prevailing breezes in the summer and has operable screen walls to provide sheltered sunny areas during winter. These covered verandah areas allow the surrounding rehabilitated bushland to penetrate between the ‘wings’ of the building. The pavilions are covered by a lightweight steel parasol roof which shelters the pavilions from summer heat, but allows winter light to radiate in the internal spaces.
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Section A competition entry for a luxury eco resort adjacent to the spectacular Ningaloo Reef in far north west Australia the project proposes that luxury should be relief and refuge from the intense light and harsh coastal environment, but also that the resort could offer refuge for the landscape from accelerated tourist development. A long skeletal plan of simple buildings, decks and buggy ramps draped across the surface of the landscape rising into a tower that provides reconnection to the ocean. Articulation is given to the robust buildings through stretching a web of high-tech ‘shade cloth’ fabric over the forms creating an interior of walkways and spaces removed from the exterior by a translucent cooling veil.
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An invited competition entry exploring the potential of brick this project addresses the growing issue of housing affordability in the context of social and environmental sustainability. Investigating the ‘forgotten’ under-serviced middle suburbs of Perth we propose more appropriate land use and the development of alternative housing typologies that respond to a changing demographic, without sacrificing the unique lifestyle of suburban Perth. A new mortar-free interlocking brick cavity wall system enables re-use of bricks when the building is no longer required. Walls are capped with a precast concrete ring beam that forms a gutter to collect rainwater and serves as a pitching point for the recycled timber roof structure.
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Elevation This project is the first in a series that investigate the potential to renovate Perth’s excellent stock of late modernist apartment buildings predominately designed by architects Krantz and Sheldon in the 50’s and 60’s. At Melford Court we seek to maximize plot ratio on the under-utilised site through the construction of a new ‘sister building’ increasing the number of apartments by 10 and re-investing the associated profit back into the existing property for the benefit of all occupants. The new building slides past the existing to sneak a view of the Swan River and a new carpark is located at the rear. Precast concrete is used in an affordable but intriguing manner, where texture, colour, alignment and perforations form associations with the existing architecture.
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Elevation This project brings new life to a 60’s apartment building. Essentially a major service upgrade we have seized the opportunity to explore replacing infrastructural elements of the building to provide a new architectural aesthetic and provoke consideration of a much larger project to maximize site usage. A new façade has been developed for the north face of the building which conceals upgrades to the power, water and gas systems to each unit. The new facade uses the upgrade to the lift plant room and balustrade/ handrail to generate a new cladding system that also acts to provide an essential building protection system, pragmatic storage (a ‘green shed’) for every apartment and an evocative lighting scheme which landmarks the building at night.
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Situated in the southern extent of suburban Perth, The Rockingham Youth Centre seeks to provide a venue to empower young people who are frequently demonised or forgotten in consideration of community projects. The proposal engages occupation of an existing ambulance station wrapping a rich collection of new spaces and program around the building and transforming it into an arts and music centre with a substantial performance space and a cafe run as training facility for young people. The architecture adopts a robust, dynamic language that formally connects the oval and adjacent sporting facilities defining itself as a focal point in the surrounding context.
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Conceived as a delicate, sculptural structure, this architectural installation provides a requested ‘landmark’ in Hay Street Mall, the retail core of Perth CBD. Our proposal continues the City of Perth’s agenda of establishing a public realm of significant civic quality that acknowledges the built heritage of Perth and celebrates the unique quality of our built and natural environment. Taking the analogous form of an ‘Urban Chandelier’ the skeletal towers are clad with coloured and patterned glass and timber battens to provide shade and shelter from the weather, but also interact with the surrounding buildings to cast light and shadow onto a manipulated new ground surface, a ‘Stone Rug’ of honed and shot blast grantite, reflecting the movement of the sun above. 0
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This large residence explores the potential for dynamic space as a collection of fields held within the elastic arms of a spiraling thick white rendered wall The wall defines space and at times contains function, 0 1 2 3 4 5 cupboards, places to sit and contemplate, or vessels for equipment and at other moments it is punctured ENTRY FLOOR PLAN to reveal connections to the old surrounding suburb. It then splits to create an intimate courtyard continuing an oscillation of public spaces connected to the street and hidden private places within. The house also examines the potential of the oblique plan, a spatial device that challenges static perception. It is also an intimate response to a couple that enjoyed art, jazz and the odd dance during our meetings.
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Plan This project is about utilising all parts of a coastal site whilst maximizing private space. Privacy is achieved by forming a wall around the site’s perimeter and then subtracting space to create courtyards, service areas, entrances and balconies. A garden then surrounds the property creating an additional layer of privacy with a lush wall of autonomy. The upper level rooms all extend on to balconies and elevated terraces that strategically re-arrange the occupants with the surrounding suburb and views to the ocean whilst offering the flexibility to maintain privacy. The strange wedge shape site has provoked an analogy to a carved piece of cheese; a smooth white perimeter skin that when cut reveals a fleshy, tactile layer that continues deep into the interior. 0
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After 10 years of exploring old residences Swan Street may be viewed as the ‘Swan Song’ of alterations and additions. It explores ideas of ‘time’ and ‘context’ through the appropriate use of material and form derived from historical studies dating back to the early arts and crafts houses combined with a careful consideration for how the building may weather and change as a continuing dynamic experience.‘Time’ is considered as past, present and an anticipation of future. ‘Time’ is abstracted through the use of green film and polycarbonate, or actively encouraged by the contrasting weathering of timber, or anticipated (slow time) by the oxidising of copper trims.Ultimately the aim of this emphasis on ‘time’ is to re-focus the experience of living in this dwelling away from the contamination and distractions of the ever-increasing electronic world (computers, home theatres…) and to encourage the re-discovery of a few simple every day pleasures. GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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This project began as a delicate line in the landscape occupying the space between the ground and the sky. This delicate line transforms in to a sequence of platforms for observing the landscape, from the distant hills to the intimacy of touching a mature tree. All rooms focus and absorb the landscape enriching the experience of moving through the residence while offering dynamic places for the family to interact and contemplative, retreat spaces. Materials and structure are based on a sophisticated interpretation of the surrounding farm aesthetic, a language that is appropriate for this farm setting.The house seeks to engage more than the visual ‘sense’ and explores the role of temperature changes for spatial definition and emphasising work/play demarcations.
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Cottesloe Surf Lifesaving Club is the anchor of community activity at the beach, its members have served, protected and celebrated with the wider public since inception. Our proposal for the new club seeks to reinforce the relationship of the Club to the community through the idea of their vigilance over the beach. The building is defined by a cluster of pavilions that float over an articulated landscape allowing direct links from the street through to the beach. Each pavilion is orientated to frame panoramic views across the ocean and more intimate views of Cottesloe and the beach; the architecture is watching you. The relationship to landscape is critical, our scheme embraces current patterns of use (paths and tracks) and establishes a relationship between manufactured and natural ground by rehabilitating the eroded natural landscape and respecting the indigenous heritage of the site. A new ground surface is created beneath and around the building from weathered recycled timber, limestone paving, grassed seating areas and swaths of local native plants.
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SECTION A The Steedman Residence explores the context of the existing house, the context of the back garden and the context of the adjacent residences. It demonstrates the advantages of preserving the streetscape while creating a new form of architecture that is respectful to the original and surrounding residences but defines new ways of living and responding to the context that is not constrained by the past. The past becomes the catalyst for experimenting and discovering alternative solutions to old and new issues. Internally the project seeks special moments in the existing Californian Bungalow and exaggerates these, moments of light, form, material, family inheritance, construction systems and structure are reinterpreted and abstracted but always delicately manipulated. This project expands the notion of sustainability to include social, cultural, contextual, economical and environmental considerations to the benefit of the occupants and community, the value of such a small-scale intervention should not be underestimated.
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Plan This project explores one of the oldest and most humble of materials- ‘brick’ and the capacity to exercise material restraint while applying this to a 1300m2 residence. This material unfolds over five stories each level is interpreted in different ways through the storytelling of brickwork. Contrasting with the cabernet coloured brick, at strategic locations a yellow glazed brick is introduced to reflect light and colour in to the house. To enter the house one must walk along a meandering path through a fabricated dense forest that creates a sense of discovery, partly concealing the 10.5m high dense brick street façade. Beyond this façade light and reflection are exploited creating a sense of fluidity of material, surface and movement that dialogues with the view and dynamic of the Perth Swan river.
McCowan Residence
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Construction of new underground platforms in Perth’s CBD railway station has changed the way that passengers use the station. Iph were commissioned to design a pair of information ‘pods’ that provide a clearly identifiable presence for the Perth Transport Authority and maximise the opportunity to provide assistance to travelling public. Appearing as aerodynamic vehicles the glowing, green ‘pods’ hover over escalators providing much needed dynamics to the non-descript circulation space that surrounds them.
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Redevelopment of the Perth Central station and the surrounding inner urban area to the south of the central train station has redistributed foot traffic in and around the old station creating the need for a new pedestrian link to provide access to the railway platforms. iph have proposed a linear, fragmented piece of infrastructure that engages and interacts with the adjacent heritage listed Horseshoe Bridge. The fractal geometry of this insertion provokes, reacts and embraces the old bridge in a playful but respectful manner.
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Responding to the eclectic demographic mix of Fremantle iph proposed 3 distinctly different apartment types with each capturing a different fragment of the historic Fremantle city. To carefully integrate in to the historic Fremantle context the facades are based on the existing immediate context, common qualities of historic Fremantle West End and memories of the past that now exist only in photographic documentation. We have proposed the re-introduction of a lost image of the adjacent corner streetscape, a photo of the former Oriana art deco theatre. The intent is to re-instate the historic image as a way of dissolving the proposed building into the past, as the image continues around the building it is stretched and distorted to the point that it becomes a shadow of the actual photograph. The main street faรงade develops and abstracts qualities of density, detailing and weathering of the only remaining adjacent historic building, Victoria Hall from 1897. At ground level we are introducing a collection of cast concrete artifacts, everyday objects that are relevant to the port of Fremantle that potentially capture the everyday living in a surprising way. We strongly believe that any new intervention whilst being of a modern nature must provide a solution that understands and responds to the complex and often contradictory nature of past and present contexts. 0
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Martyn Hook
iredale pedersen hook staff
Adrian has extensive experience in projects ranging from domestic interiors to large scale urban planning across residential, environmental and institutional typologies. Adrian has worked in Berlin as a project architect with Professor Manfred Schiedhelm creating new housing prototypes for up to 10,000 residents. In Perth his experience includes roles as a senior architect in small and large scale commercial practices. Adrian has completed post graduate studies as an invited guest student at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste/ Stadelschule in Frankfurt, under Professor Peter Cook and the late Professor Enric Miralles and recently graduated in the Master of Architecture by project by invitation at RMIT University. He has guest lectured in Berlin, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Patras, Melbourne and Perth and is currently involved with teaching programs at both Curtin University and the University of Western Australia and is an Adjunct Professor at Curtin University. He has particular experience in researching and developing prototypical school models based on conventional and innovative educational principles.
Immediately following graduation Finn moved to Broome in the far North West of Western Australia where he lived for 5 years and practiced throughout the Kimberley and Pilbara Regions working primarily on housing projects and buildings for Aboriginal communities. As a result he has extensive experience in remote area building, design and contract administration. Finn understands the beautiful but harsh landscape of this part of the country and the extreme conditions that dictate occupation of this land. As a passionate environmentalist he is a founding member of Environs Kimberley Inc, a Broome based environmental group promoting landscape preservation and sustainable development in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. This work provided the background for his research at RMIT University as an invited candidate in the Master of Architecture by project. Now located back in Perth, Finn remains very active in the North West. He also provides the office with sophisticated expertise in the realm of environmentally sustainable design practice.
Martyn runs the iph Melbourne office and is the Director of the Architecture Program at RMIT University. He also holds a MArch completed at the Bartlett School at University College London under the direct supervision of Professor Peter Cook He has been Guest Professor at TU Wien, TU Innsbruck and Wismar and visting critic at The Bartlett and University of Brighton. Martyn has lectured widely about Australian architecture throughout Europe and the US. Martyn recently completed a PhD at RMIT University titled ‘The Act of Reflective Practice- The Emergence of iredale pedersen hook architects’ that seeks to provide connections between his architectural practice and research interests which explore the role of dimension, constraint and indeterminancy in the architectural design process. As part of this research Martyn has developed a series of system built environmentally responsive dwellings. He has particular expertise in the field of winery, brewery and restaurant design and recent projects include a winery in the Yarra Valley and a brewery in Portland, Oregan.
Rebecca Angus BArch Curtin University Caroline Di Costa BArch (Hons) Curtin University Jemma Van Dongen BArch (Hons) UWA Kylene Tan BArch (Hons) UWA Vincci Chow BArch (Hons) Curtin University Isabel Legge BArch (Hons) RMIT University Johnny Belviso BArt (Hons)Curtin University Tyrone Cobcroft RMIT University Simone Woolfenden Solveig Almo BDes Arch RMIT University Penny Anderson (UWA) Sally-Ann Weerts (Curtin University)
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Selected Published Works Books 2009 Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects Monograph, Design Document Series, Damdi Architectural Publishing Co. Ltd, Korea, due September 2009 2009 Dawesville Residence- ‘Home Green Home’, Mondadori Electa, Italy, due July 2009 2009 Reynolds Residence and Sheep House- Contemporary Ecological Architecture, fusion publishing with Daab, Spain and Germany, due January 2009 2009 Think Brick Competition Submission, Richard Weller, Boomtown 2050, University of Western Australia, Perth Australia- due January 2009 2009 7 Projects iph architects- Famous International Architects 2008, Rihan Publishing, China, due January 2009 2008 Remote Housing- Re-Housing, RMIT November 2008 2008 Dilkara Way House- Stephen Crafti, Beach Houses Down Under, p274-279, Images Publishing Australia 2008 2008 Gidgegannup House and Swan Street ResidenceThe Australian House, Anna Johnson and Patrick Bingham-Hall, p164-172,p380-389 Pesaro Publishing Australia 2008 Abundant- Australian Pavilion 11th International Architecture Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia 2008, p86-87, Australian Institute of Architects, ACT. 2008 Gidgegannup House- Architecture Inspired by Australia, p161-165, Mint Publishing ltd, New Zealand 2008 Sheep House, Gooseberry Hill House and Mt Hawthorn House, 100 Dream Houses from Down Under, Images Publishing Australia. 2008 Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion- Di Stasio Ideas Competition Publication, p142-143, Australia July 2008 2008 Sheep House- Stephen Crafti, A Place in the Country- New Rural Architecture, Australia 2008 2007 Dawseville Residence Ed. Casey C.M. Mathewson, International Houses Atlas. Weltatlas zeitgenossischer Wohnhauser, Feierabend Unique Books, Germany. 2007 Dawseville Residence Ed. Casey C.M. Mathewson, Residential Designs for the 21st Century: An International Collection, Firefly Books Toronto. 2007 Kapang House- Ed. Beaver R. 2007, The New 100 Houses, p48-51, The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd, Victoria, Australia. 2007Australian Architecture- Living the Modern, Ed. Claudia Perren, Kristien Ring, Hatje Cantz Germany. 2007 Next Wave- Emerging Talents in Australian
Exhibitions, Competitions and Invited Ideas Submissions:
Awards
2009 Abundant Australia Highlights Exhibition (from the Venice Biennale), Object Gallery Sydney, 31 January- 5 April 2009. 2008 Orang-utan Enclosure Perth Zoo and Walmajarri Community Centre, Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment 2008 International Finalist and Australian Representative, Austria (competition announcement early 2009). 2008 Living the Modern_AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURELouisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, October 2008. 2008 iph + Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, Boffins Bookshop Perth, 21 Nov- 28 Nov 2008 2008 Jewell Cave Visitor Centre, Augusta- Invited Competition 2nd Place 2008 The Emergence of iredale pedersen hook architects_2masters + 1phd, Brightspace Gallery, St. Kilda, Victoria. 17.10.08- 24.10.08 2008 WA Chapter AIA Architecture Awards, Architecture Week- Cullity Gallery, Perth. 13.10.08-17.10.08 2008 The 11th Venice Architecture Exhibition titled, ‘Out There. Architecture Beyond Building’, is taking place in Venice, between 14 September - 23 November 2008. http://www.labiennale.org/it/architettura/ for further information. 2008 Living the Modern_AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE- Museum of Finnish Architecture Helsinki, 8.10.0830.11.08. http://www.mfa.fi/frontpage 2008 ‘On the inside’ images from our suburbia, exhibition Moores Building Fremantle, 22 August- 1st September 2008 organised by Shiloh j Perry. 2008 Living the Modern_AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTUREMuseum of Architecture in Tallinn, Estonia, September 2008. 2008 New Australian Pavilion Di Stasio Ideas Competition 28 June – 3 August 2008 Heide Museum of Modern Art 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen For more information visit: www.heide.com.au 2008 Café di Stasio Venice Architecture Biennale Pavilion Ideas Competition- Shortlisted 2008 RAIA 2008 Architecture Awards Exhibition WA Chapter QV1, Perth WA 2008 Living the Modern_AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTUREMuseum of Architecture Wroclaw, Poland, 08.02.0830.03.08. 2007 Touring Exhibition and Symposium- New Trends
2009 Gidgegannup Residence- Shortlisted World Architecture News (WAN) 2009 House of the Year, results to be announced shortly. 2008 Architectural Review International Awards for Emerging Architecture, London, England- Honourable Mention, New Orang-utan Enclosure at Perth Zoological Gardens. 2008 World Architecture Community Awards 2008, Citation by Honorary Members, New Orang-utan Enclosure at Perth Zoological Gardens. 2008 Australian Timber Design Award Overall WinnerHighly Commended (2nd place)- Sheep House Victoria 2008 Australian Timber Design Award- Environmental Commitment Award- Sheep House Victoria 2008 RAIA Commendation Award in Urban Design for The Merry-Go-Round of Dreams and Ghosts. 2008 RAIA Archicentre Award for the Steedman Residence Menora Perth. 2008 RAIA Commendation Award in Single Residential Alterations + Additions for the Steedman Residence. 2008 Steedman Residence- Timber Industry Awards 2008 Category Six: Excellence in Engineering and Architectural Design of a Timber Framed or Finished Structure- Highly Commended. 2007 Think Brick National Housing Competition- High Commendation 2007 RAIA WA Laminex Group Architecture Award Residential Architecture- Alterations: Gooseberry Hill House, Gooseberry Hill WA 2007 Built Citation Award Portland Chapter IIDABridgeport Brewery and Bakery, Portland America, with Holst Architecture 2006 Architectural Review International Awards for Emerging Architecture, London, England Special Commendation for the Walmajarri Office and Staff House at Djugerari Community, via Fitzroy Crossing, Australia 2006 IDEA06 Runner Up Hospitality Category for the Section 8 Container Bar, Melbourne, with DireTribe. 2006 RAIA Colorbond Steel Award for the Walmajarri Office and Staff House at Djugerari Community, via Fitzroy Crossing. 2006 RAIA Commendation Award in Public Institutional Category for the Walmajarri Office and Staff House at Djugerari Community, via Fitzroy Crossing. 2006 RAIA Commendation Award in Multiple Residential Category for Tjuntjuntjara Community Housing and Meeting Area 2006 RAIA Commendation Award in Alterations/Additions
2005 WA State Master Builders Association Awards- Best Home $400-500K, Best Metal Clad Building- Kapang House, Broome WA 2004: Midland Brick Fellowship Award (Adrian Iredale) 2004 RAIA Commendation Award Interior CategoryGreenway Street Townhouse, Perth WA 2004 Dulux Colour Awards- National Finalist- Greenway Street Townhouse, Perth WA Perth Zoo Orang-utan Enclosure Stage 1: 2003 RAIA Commendation Award- Environmental Sustainability Award 2003 Nominated RAIA BHP Steel Colorbond Award 2002 Nominated RAIA BHP Steel Colorbond Award Dawesville Residence: 2003 WA State Dulux Colour Award 2003 WA Housing Industry of Australia Award for Innovative use of steel 2003 Perth Regional Housing Industry of Australia Award for Innovative use of steel 2002 RAIA Architecture Award- Energy Conservation Award 2002 Nominated RAIA BHP Steel Colorbond Award Reynolds Residence: 2002 RAIA Commendation Award- Residential- Alterations + Additions Award 2002 RAIA BHP Colorbond Steel Award 2002 RAIA Architecture Award- Archicentre RAIA Renovation Award 2002 AISC (Australian Institute Of Steel Construction) Western Australian 2002 High Commendation For Metal Building Design 2002 AASA Award (Australasian Architecture Schools Association)- Built Project For Residential Conversion Warehouse9 2002 Your Kinda House, Housing Concept Design Competition- Kalgoorlie-Boulder + The Goldfields Special Mention 2002 Your Kinda House, Housing Concept Design Competition- Transportable For Rural And Remote Localities - Special Mention 2001 RMIT University Good Teaching Award Nomination (Martyn Hook) 1999 Archi-centre House Of The Future Ideas Competition- The Architect -Editors Choice (Finn Pedersen) 1997 Architecture Australia AA Prize For Unbuilt WorkHigh Commendation/ 2nd place (Adrian Iredale) 1993 BHP Steel Student Biennale- Special Commendation (Adrian Iredale)