LOCATION: Jurien Bay, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/ SERVICES: Residential / Single House / Partial Architectural Service to Building Approval
This unique project involves helping a client with a clear vision to owner-build a modest, simple, economical and functional off-grid dwelling on a beautiful elevated piece of rugged scrub covered limestone with spectacular panoramic views to Western Australia’s Turquoise Coast.
Located roughly half way between Jurien Bay and Cervantes and designed to be completely off-grid, the home built from 18 one-trip, high-top sea containers is elevated on a platform of storage containers to maximise the ocean views and breezes. The dwelling utilises solar panels with battery storage, rainwater harvesting, water storage tanks and eco-friendly composting toilet.
The owners aim to be nearly 100% self sustaining and off-grid by utilising ground and roof mounted solar panels, a battery storage system, rainwater harvesting & artesian water providing filtered water for household and garden as well as for a dedicated required storage tank for fire fighting.
Establishment of a sustainable ‘food forest’ or ’forest garden’ is a project in development by the owners. A food forest is a 3-dimensional planting of diverse edible plants that attempts to emulate natural ecosystems.
LOCATION: Yallingup, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Luxury Residential / Single House / Full Architectural Service
FLOOR AREA: 500 square metres
PROJECT COST: $2.1M AUD
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Also known as Ithaca-Yallingup, this spacious luxury architect designed home epitomises relaxed, generous, warm modernism and coastal style. The project is located on a beautiful sloping site in the Millbrook Estate, Yallingup.
The Challenge:
To design a spectacular weekender, short term luxury rental and future residence for a rural, steeply sloping, bushfire prone and high clay content site with its best views looking west.
We came up with an ultra simple, ultra minimal, elegant L- shaped plan that embraced the building envelope and physically locked in to and floated above the landscape.
DESIGN FEATURES:
• large concrete rainwater tank hidden beneath the double garage.
• living areas on the upper level with bedrooms on the lower level to maximise views.
• back-to back double fireplaces that heat both the inside and outside lounge areas.
• covered alfresco deck with built-in kitchen connecting to a separate studio/library.
• fully retractable all weather external venetian blinds to the west elevation.
• kitchen and butler’s pantry designed with the help of Must Wine Bar’s Russell Blaikie.
Vehicles enter from the highest point on the site along a gravel driveway. Stepping down from the driveway, visitors enter from a south facing covered porch, taking in views across the valley, then into a glazed gallery. The generous double garage shares a level with the laundry and mud room.
From there the passage/gallery steps down to the main living area which hovers above the landscape with full height glazing taking in the breathtaking views to the south, west and north with glimpses of Smith’s Beach in the distance. The expansive glazing can be protected from the west with operable louvre sun-shading.
The main living area is linked to the large covered terrace by large sliding doors either side of a double sided Yallingup Stone fireplace. The covered terrace is open to the west to take in the views and sea-breeze. Also open to the east, the deck has intimate views of the grass tree covered hillside and can be closed off with glass bi-fold doors.
The covered outdoor living deck has a lounge setting and timber and stainless steel outside kitchen on the north side.
The covered terrace connects in turn to the large studio on the north end of the main living wing.
From the main living room a single flight stair descends down to the sleeping and bathroom level which nestles into the natural landscape to the east and opens on to a cascade of steps down to a grassed landscape terrace on the west.
The master bedroom has west and north facing corner glazing looking out to beautiful stands of eucalypts and a door opening out onto a terrace with an infinity edge spa.
LOCATION: Ardross, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE / SERVICES: Luxury Residential / Single House / Full Architectural Service
FLOOR AREA: 300 square metres
PROJECT COST: $1,200,000 AUD
Mike Edwards Architecture were commissioned for a full architectural service for this project which exudes a spacious modernity, openness, warmth and opulence.
The double volume entry stair hall features a beautifully detailed steel and timber stair with a two storey stone clad blade wall and frameless glass details.
A cleverly designed and detailed external steel canopy brings human scale to the vertical spotted gum clad entry .
The two storey, 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home has generous sized rooms including a large upper floor retreat and terrace with views to Perth city skyline to the north.
The rear living areas and terraces step down to accommodate the natural slope of the land toward the north. The upper floor master bedroom and retreat step up toward the rear to make the most of the expansive views while also creating extra volume to the living spaces below.
At ground floor level a large modern open plan kitchen, living, dining area opens on to a covered patio. The north facing rear yard includes a retained existing swimming pool, lawn area and landscaping. A large modern open plan kitchen, living, dining area opens on to a covered patio.
As with all Mike Edwards Architecture projects, basic passive and solar design principles are taken into account from design inception. Considerable care is taken to optimise northern exposure and minimise eastern and western exposure to prevent undue solar gain in summer and take advantage of northern sun in winter. Suitable orientation and solar protection is integral.
Window and door openings are designed to facilitate flow-through and cross-ventilation as well as providing low-e glass and double glazing where required.
Appropriate specifications, material selection and building insulation is provided to more than adequately meet building code energy requirements.
LOCATION: Maylands, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE / SERVICES: Residential / Single House / Full Architectural Service
FLOOR AREA: 175 square metres
The site is located on a compact rear battle-axe subdivision lot that allows for a northern aspect. Mike Edwards Architecture were commissioned for a full architectural service for this two bedroom + two bathroom + artist studio two storey house.
The design is compact and affordable while incorporating architectural elements such as double volume dining room & stair spaces.
An open plan living/dining/kitchen space opens on to a north facing covered patio and a steel stair winds up to the upper floor bedrooms and artist studio with it’s own kitchenette/laundrette.
The two bedrooms open into the double volume dining space which has clerestory windows letting in northern light from above. Both the master bedroom and artist studio have highlight glazing.
Designed to allow for rooftop solar and battery storage the house can also utilise rainwater harvesting.
The driveway approach is viewed from the master bedroom and living rooms allowing for passive surveillance.
LOCATION: Argyle, Shire of Donnybrook, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE / SERVICES: Residential / Single House / Partial Architectural Service
FLOOR AREA: 210 square metres
Mike Edwards Architecture were commissioned for a partial architectural service to Building Approval Phase for this project located at Argyle, roughly half way between Boyanup and Donnybrook in the Ferguson Valley region of south-west Western Australia.
Our clients wanted a low-profile, home that terraced down the sloping site to take in stunning views of the Ferguson Valley.
The combination of dark cladding and Spotted Gum cladding blends in beautifully with it’s rural location and Australian native tree backdrop.
Although fairly compact at 210 sqm of internal space, the house feels light, open and spacious. The flowing open-plan spaces of the living wing connect to the bedroom wing with a glazed link.
Master bedroom, lounge and theatre spaces open onto a landscaped terrace with a plunge pool taking in the expansive views to the south.
LOCATION: Kenilworth, Queensland, Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Competition/Public Infrastructure
CLIENT: Town of Kenilworth
Design Philosophy:
The approach was to attempt to provide a bold, elegant, economical and buildable design that met the competition and brief objectives while also solving the functional and technical requirements.
On first sight ‘the dunny’ is a contemporary cubist utilitarian architectural form, bold, contrasting with and rising above the landscape. Your attention is immediately attracted by the large scale black & white graphics, highly visible and legible at a distance. The graphics obviously show the function of the structure using oversized universal symbols for male, female and disabled toilets. A second, maybe less immediately obvious reading is that of a bizzare, overscaled, abstracted version of a Friesian cow, symbolic of Kenilworth’s proud dairy industry.
Design Considerations:
‘The dunny’ is sited east of centre on the lot, near, but not too close to the existing picnic shelter. Immediately adjacent to the carparking/service road, the ramp starts from a stone paved circular pad and follows an interesting looping path softened by curved direction changes up to the main block floor level 4m above natural ground level.
East and west ‘wing’ walls of the structure at right angles to the Eumundi-Kenilworth Road almost appearing like billboards provide wind protection to the sheltered platform and frame superb views to the north and south.
Male, female and disabled toilet cubicles are on the east side of the platform with a communal wash basin and rest/waiting seat on the west. Spacious but not excessive, the platform has a projecting balcony for taking in the outlook to the north. The openness of the structure provides good visibility for user safety. The concept idea is adaptable enough that it could be revised to also accommodate a unisex parent/baby change room.
The simplicity of the design makes it eminently understandable, economical and buildable. For flood resistance, strength and maintenance, construction is proposed to be concrete and steel with timber bulkhead/soffit linings for contrast and visual warmth. Graphics would be in anti-vandal coated high quality exterior industrial grade enamel paint. Simplicity means that the design lends itself to alternative, more light-weight construction methods and materials.
Water and effluent tanks are proposed to be concrete and located underground below the main structure with secure access hatches. A vertical riser element conceals waste pipes, vent pipes, water supply, rainwater harvesting, electrical, pump and solar power cabling. A bulkhead to the underside of the platform conceals services to keep the design looking clean and tidy.
LOCATION: THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA - Saint Kilda Road MELBOURNE SOUTHBANK Victoria 3006
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Temporary Public Infrastructure/Competition
Frozen Dream is a partial reconstruction/model/facsimile of a thought/idea experienced through the fading out phase from a lucid dream state to waking consciousness, an attempt to express in crude material form an exploration of the mechanism through which our universe manifests from void/source into the realities perceived by conscious beings. During the ‘fading out’ phase the dreamer becomes aware of time and motion slowing down like frames of a motion picture (distinct frame by frame) and pixelated experience when the lucid dream dissolves into the waking state. This experience recalls scenes in the movie ‘The Matrix’ who’s creators claim to have been inspired by lucid dreams.
The faces of the cubes/pixels in Frozen Dream take on/approximate the colour of their background in an attempt to create a kind of dematerialisation and blending of the pixels with their surrounding reality. The pixel/cubes are also positioned to imitate random movement, jostling, appearance and disappearance in an attempt to describe the quantum vacuum (postulated by contemporary physicists) where subatomic particles ‘fizz’ in and out of existence and are said to make up most of the physical matter we perceive.
Frozen Dream was done for the NGV architecture competition submission to the National Gallery of Victoria in 2017.
LOCATION: Nornalup, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE / SERVICES: Residential / Single House / Partial Architectural Service to Building Approval Phase.
FLOOR AREA: 185 square metres
Preliminary design for the Nornalup House. This view shows the main house from the south-west, sited on a wooded ridge with spectacular views to the north over farmland to distant views of the Walpole forest. The project is an owner-build and designed with simplicity and crisp detailing. The form reflects the client's request for the project to look like 'a group of country town shops' and references Art Deco shop fronts seen in many WA rural towns.
The off-grid design includes a main dwelling with mezzanine bedroom & ensuite, a guest room with ensuite and a garage/workshop. Water collected in a dam on the northern paddock will be pumped to a large water tank to the south. A ground mounted solar panel array will direct power to battery storage for the farm and accommodation.
Recycled materials including bricks, steel cladding, timber, kitchen and steel stair structure has been collected by the owner over many years to be used in the construction.
LOCATION: Brigadoon, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Residential / Semi-rural / Single House / Concept Design
Located on a gently sloping 1.5 ha lot at Brigadoon in the Darling Range foothills the mainly gravel and sandy site is covered in native scrub and stands of native trees with distant views to Perth.
The design maximises northern exposure, breezes and openness to the outdoors with generous open planned spaces that open-up and flow onto open terraces to the north.
The simple shed-like metal-clad forms settle into the bush setting evoking a rural calmness and utility.
Clever planning for cross-ventilation, solar overhangs, highlight windows, solar panel array and rainwater harvesting make this a true eco-home.
The simple arrangement of forms provide a welcoming entrance at the end of the curved gravel driveway approach. The understated design of this rural retreat aims to create a feeling of gentle stillness and repose.
LOCATION: Perth City, Murray Street, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Commercial / Urban Infrastructure / Architectural Service to Documentation Stage
Murray Street Footbridge 1989. Designed and documented by Mike Edwards as a young graduate working for Etherington Coulter & Jones Architects.
This challenging project involved Mike devising the bridge deck construction system consisting of a southern T-pylon, four main large steel beams and precast concrete coffered soffit infill segments to negotiate different building levels on opposite sides of Murray Street, the curved shape of the main beams and pedestrian gradients.
The steel and polycarbonate roof, steel and concrete pedestrian deck connects Myer with David Jones across the Murray Street Mall in Perth’s central shopping area.
LOCATION: Cape Peron, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Concept Design & Visuals/Public Infrastructure
This concept design by Mike Edwards Architecture includes two buildings with a covered link, a small cafe to the eastern side with a generous deck and views to Garden Island, a museum space of approx. 250 square metres to the western side also with expansive views to Garden Island. The Museum and Cafe buildings are sited to provide openness and views to the north while creating a protected entrance courtyard space on the south tucked in to the dune vegetation.
The bold concrete construction has a fluid curvilinear form inspired by the round and curved shapes found in many of the coastal defence structures, the arcs and curves of coastal geography found in bays, coves, rocks and erosion.
Inspiration has also been drawn from the softness and shapes of waves, surf, coastal dunes, hills and vegetation.
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Design Development, Detailed Design & Contract Documentation
LOCATION: Building 211, Curtin University, Bentley Campus, Western Australia
The two-level building complex consists of departmental offices and teaching spaces. The complex is arranged as linked individual building masses around a circular central double volume foyer which acts as a common meeting ground or centre for the composition.
As a graduate architect with Oldham Boas Ednie-Brown Architects, working under the direction of project architects Lou Cotter & Chris Williams, Mike was responsible for the design development, detailed design and direction of documentation for the project.
Contrasting timbers, brick and stone have been used to provide a richness and warmth to the common spaces. An octagonal central roof light creates a complex pattern especially striking with night lighting.
Occupants of upper level spaces are connected to the earth via exterior bridges to raised berms that slope down to an outside amphitheatre space.
The building arrangement relates to the existing campus grid and provides clear connections to adjacent buildings.
The careful design of the centre has addressed issues important to the client group including natural ventilation, natural light, outlook, connection to land and response to environment.
LOCATION: Maddington, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE / SERVICES: Two Dwelling Development / Partial Architectural Service to completion of Design Development Stage.
FLOOR AREA: 267 square metres
PROJECT COST: Approx. $600,000 AUD
Mike Edwards Architecture were commissioned by City of Gosnells for this SHERP (Social Housing Economic Recovery Package) Social Housing Project.
The SHERP represents a significant government investment in a pipeline of works, targeted at social housing, to support the WA construction industry through to 2023 while improving the lifespan and quality of homes available for social housing.
The two lot battle-axe lot development has two nearly identical single level dwellings designed to Liveable Housing Australia - Design Guidelines. The design of the dwellings aims to maximise economy , build-ability and utility along with environmental & solar-passive design principles. The designs allow for roof-top solar panels, battery storage and rainwater harvesting.
As with all Mike Edwards Architecture projects, basic passive and solar design principles are taken into account from design inception. Considerable care is taken to optimise northern exposure and minimise eastern and western exposure to prevent undue solar gain in summer and take advantage of northern sun in winter. Suitable orientation and solar protection is integral.
Window and door openings are designed to facilitate flow-through and cross-ventilation as well as providing low-e glass and double glazing where required.
Appropriate specifications, material selection and building insulation is provided to more than adequately meet building code energy requirements.
LOCATION: City Beach, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE: Residential / Single House / Concept Design
Mike Edwards Architecture provided a couple of design options for a contemporary facelift/front facade upgrade to this five year old standard design builder home. The bold use of materials and forms substantially enhances the street appeal and feeling of arrival to this otherwise plain existing home which has well finished simple interior spaces.
LOCATION: Mount Pleasant, Perth, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Residential Architecture / Single House /Full Architectural Service
FLOOR AREA: 250 square metres
Completed in 1998 with addition and pool built in 2006, the architectural brief was for an open plan contemporary family home with a relaxed 'holiday' feel. Fremantle based architect, Mike Edwards, came up with a light, airy split-level design which fitted beautifully into the natural contours of the sloping site.
The undercroft double garage and carport were tucked under the bedroom wing to free up open space and allow the bedrooms to take advantage of lake and hill views.
A clever skillion roof design affords the interior spaces soaring volumes and skilfully placed high light windows that visually 'embrace' the beautiful landscaped surroundings giving the home a special ambience.
Careful placement of openings extends the perception of space to encompass the boundaries of the site and help to make the home feel much larger than it really is.
Innovative and thoughtful design took maximum advantage of the slope of the land to negate the use of expensive pool fencing and maximise the expansive outlook from the raised pool terrace located at the highest point. The outdoor entertaining deck opening off the main living area of the house has a direct view of the water without an obtrusive glass or metal fence.
Bold use of form, materials and colours have given this architect designed home plenty of 'wow factor' although it remains extremely liveable and user friendly for family life.
LOCATION: FORRESTFIELD Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE / SERVICES: Single House / Partial Architectural Service to Concept Phase / Owner-builder
FLOOR AREA: 235 square metres
PROJECT COST: $700,000 AUD
Located on a bush block in the foothills of the Darling Ranges, the steeply sloping site commands extensive elevated views across semi-rural land to the Perth metropolitan area and city skyline beyond.
Mike Edwards Architecture created a beautiful economical practical concept for a two level home that cleverly maximises solar passive design principles and comfortably locates the house into the sloping landscape.
The generous open plan layout locates the main living spaces and master suite to take advantage of the best views on the upper level with secondary bedrooms, utility rooms and garage on the lower level.
Sustainable design items include: solar passive design to maximise northern aspect and sun control, solar panel array, battery storage, potential for rainwater harvesting, minimal building pad and excavation.
As with all Mike Edwards Architecture projects, basic passive and solar design principles are taken into account from design inception. Considerable care is taken to optimise northern exposure and minimise eastern and western exposure to prevent undue solar gain in summer and take advantage of northern sun in winter. Suitable orientation and solar protection is integral.
Window and door openings are designed to facilitate flow-through and cross-ventilation as well as providing low-e glass and double glazing where required.
Appropriate specifications, material selection and building insulation is provided to more than adequately meet building code energy requirements.
PROJECT TYPE: Residential / Single House / Sloping Block
FLOOR AREA: 300 square metres
PROJECT COST: $900,000 AUD
Mike Edwards Architecture were initially commissioned to provide design guidance on how best to subdivide this 862 sqm lot. The sloping corner lot incorporates an existing red brick bungalow, tall eucalyptus trees and sweeping views over Blue Gum Lake to the south. The slope of the land, existing trees, sewer location, crossover location, street access, northern exposure, lot size , minimising retaining and overshadowing were all factors considered in the recommendations.
A number of different concept designs were explored and tested before the client settled on a compact open plan three level proposal with undercroft garage and utility spaces which maximises views and incorporates generous indoor/outdoor living areas.
As with all Mike Edwards Architecture projects, basic passive and solar design principles are taken into account from design inception. Considerable care is taken to optimise northern exposure and minimise eastern and western exposure to prevent undue solar gain in summer and take advantage of northern sun in winter. Suitable orientation and solar protection is integral.
Window and door openings are designed to facilitate flow-through and cross-ventilation as well as providing low-e glass and double glazing where required.
Appropriate specifications, material selection and building insulation is provided to more than adequately meet building code energy requirements.
LOCATION: Alfred Cove, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Affordable Residential / Single House / Partial service concept design.
FLOOR AREA: 250 square metres
PROJECT COST ESTIMATE: $780,000
Designed as an affordable solar passive home for a north facing lot in Alfred Cove this home has open plan living, 3 bedrooms, theatre and double garage.
The open plan living, dining and kitchen area opens onto a covered patio deck with adjustable louvre roofing that provides shade in summer and allows sunlight in winter.
A beautiful landscaped north facing courtyard is created by separating the house and double garage with plenty of space for a swimming pool.
A materials palette of honed concrete floors, concrete soffits, white painted brickwork, recycled brickwork, timber screens and stair details give this design a warm modernist feel throughout.
As with all Mike Edwards Architecture projects, basic passive and solar design principles are taken into account from design inception. Considerable care is taken to optimise northern exposure and minimise eastern and western exposure to prevent undue solar gain in summer and take advantage of northern sun in winter. Suitable orientation and solar protection is integral.
Window and door openings are designed to facilitate flow-through and cross-ventilation as well as providing low-e glass and double glazing where required.
Appropriate specifications, material selection and building insulation is provided to more than adequately meet building code energy requirements.
LOCATION: Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Residential Architecture / Addition & renovation / Partial Architectural Service to Building Approval
FLOOR AREA: 200 square metres
This project is a substantial addition and renovation to a 1910 four room cottage in Mount Hawthorn. The challenge here is to turn a tiny old run down four room cottage into a fresh, contemporary, spacious family home and entertainers dream, within a modest budget.
Our solution was to come up with a design that met the clients practical needs and lifestyle requirements with a single storey, open plan addition that steps down to the rear to accommodate the sloping site.
As with all Mike Edwards Architecture projects, basic passive and solar design principles are taken into account from design inception. Considerable care is taken to optimise northern exposure and minimise eastern and western exposure to prevent undue solar gain in summer and take advantage of northern sun in winter. Suitable orientation and solar protection is integral.
Window and door openings are designed to facilitate flow-through and cross-ventilation as well as providing low-e glass and double glazing where required.
Appropriate specifications, material selection and building insulation is provided to more than adequately meet building code energy requirements.
The top 5 features of the design include:
1 - a large double garage coming off the rear laneway with room for the plumbing truck and a trailer as well as undercover access to the main house
2 - a home office/kids rumpus room coming off the living area but able to be closed off with bifold doors
3 - north facing high level louvre windows to the living room for ventilation and to let in the winter sun
4 - a spacious open plan living/dining/kitchen area opening on to a generous covered deck with it’s own outside kitchen
5 - possible future swimming pool and deck design included as part of the planning approval documents
LOCATION: COMO Western Australia
Located on a west facing narrow lot in Como, this two storey project is designed as a passive solar home that allows the sun to penetrate deep into living spaces during winter months.
The garage is separated from the main house to create a private courtyard and maximise usable outdoor space, solar exposure, natural light and ventilation to the living spaces.
Open plan kitchen, dining and living spaces flow seamlessly onto a covered deck and pool area. The first floor master bedroom projects out westward to provide cover and solar protection to the outdoor living deck. A single flight open steel stair rising to an upper level gallery divides the living and dining spaces providing drama to this double volume space.
A materials palette of dark vertical first floor cladding, white painted brickwork, honed concrete floors, exposed concrete ceilings and soffits, dark charcoal window frames and trim gives this home a feeling of cool, relaxed minimalism.
As with all Mike Edwards Architecture projects, basic passive and solar design principles are taken into account from design inception. Considerable care is taken to optimise northern exposure and minimise eastern and western exposure to prevent undue solar gain in summer and take advantage of northern sun in winter. Suitable orientation and solar protection is integral.
Window and door openings are designed to facilitate flow-through and cross-ventilation as well as providing low-e glass and double glazing where required.
Appropriate specifications, material selection and building insulation is provided to more than adequately meet building code energy requirements.
LOCATION: Perth, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Luxury Residential/Semi-detached two dwelling subdivision / Two Storey / Concept Design
Originally designed as a mirrored pair for a two lot subdivision, these two storey townhouses have been arranged to optimise south facing small narrow lots. Open plan kitchen, family, dining spaces have been located to the rear for northern exposure and open onto a covered deck and courtyard with an adjustable louvre patio roof.
A carport or garage can be accessed from the rear Right-of-way.
The central stair and circulation gallery are lit from above with solar-passively designed sky-lighting.
The generous master bedroom suite faces the street with bedrooms 2 and 3 located to the rear of the upper floor with northern exposure.
The exterior features dark charcoal face brickwork, off-form concrete detailing and timber joinery. The warm interior material palette has honed concrete floors, concrete soffits, white painted brickwork, timber joinery and cabinetry.
As with all Mike Edwards Architecture projects, basic passive and solar design principles are taken into account from design inception. Considerable care is taken to optimise northern exposure and minimise eastern and western exposure to prevent undue solar gain in summer and take advantage of northern sun in winter. Suitable orientation and solar protection is integral.
Window and door openings are designed to facilitate flow-through and cross-ventilation as well as providing low-e glass and double glazing where required.
Appropriate specifications, material selection and building insulation is provided to more than adequately meet building code energy requirements.
Commercial and residential architecture firm Mike Edwards Architecture was commissioned by the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority to develop urban design built form concept images in collaboration with JCY Architects during the early stages of this major city project.
Even though only loose preliminary urban design ideas informed these initial sketches, there was an intent to vision a multi-use, civic, generous, green, spacious and permeable place with commercial activity relegated mainly to the perimeters. Strengthening the William Street pedestrian link, visually and physically, between Perth City and Northbridge was a key element to the design intent of the images.
LOCATION: Perth, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Commercial/Concept design & 3D Visuals
CLIENT: WA Tourism Council
'Planning has begun for a cable car between Elizabeth Quay and Kings Park, which the tourism industry believes could be the flagship tourist attraction that Perth desperately needs ' The West Australian online. MIKE EDWARDS ARCHITECTURE produced a concept design and visuals for WA Tourism council.
LOCATION: Perth, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Public Infrastructure/Urban Design Concept/3D Visuals
CLIENT: City of Perth
Light Rail for Saint Georges Terrace.
In 2013 Mike Edwards Architecture was engaged by the City of Perth to develop preliminary built-form concepts and then provide 3D digital modelling and visuals to communicate the City’s proposal for a light rail system running through central Perth from the Hyatt Hotel along Saint Georges Terrace then either across a proposed freeway bridge or from Barracks Arch connecting to Hay Street in West Perth with potential to continue along Hay Street into Subiaco and beyond.
LOCATION: City of Belmont WA
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Urban Design/3d Concept Visuals
CLIENT: City of Belmont
Mike Edwards Architecture produced a notional concept design from the City of Belmont's Belvidere Main Street Precinct Design Guidelines to help illustrate the potential and intent that the guidelines allow.
LOCATION: Aubin Grove, Atwell, Perth, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Public Infrastructure/Concept Design & 3D Visuals
PROJECT COST: $80,000,000
Fremantle based Commercial and residential architecture firm Mike Edwards Architecture produced this concept design & images for the Aubin Grove Station proposal at Atwell, Perth.
The $80,000,000 proposal is for a major rail station and bus interchange with 2000 car parking spaces, which would make it the largest 'park and ride' facility in the whole Perth rail network.
The concept design and images were produced in less than four days from a minimal architectural brief for government media release.
The Concept:
A bold, simple organising structure led to a composition of articulated forms expressing the directions and intersections of pedestrian and rail transport routes. The floating long box/tube expresses the pedestrian access in the east/west direction with an abstract syncopated facade treatment creating an interesting night lighting pattern visible from the train-line and freeway. Carefully chosen colours express a relationship with the building’s landscaped surrounds.
Expressing the north-south linear rail-line direction, a continuous ‘Transperth Green Ribbon’ roof canopy element sails over the platforms and undulates upward and over to encompass the double-volume vertical pedestrian circulation element.
The four light-coloured inverted ’L’ rail-line cover elements invoke pairs of protective hands clasping from either side protecting the platforms from rain, wind and sun. The long horizontal slot windows provide passive surveillance of the platforms from the freeway and station approaches.
LOCATION: Sorrento, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Luxury Residential/Architectural Service to Development Approval
FLOOR AREA: 500 square metres
A collaboration between Fremantle based Mike Edwards Architecture and Martin Mileham, this project is a bold and innovative brutalist/minimalist concrete and rammed earth residence located near the WA coast at Sorrento.
DESIGN FEATURES:
• off-form concrete and rammed concrete construction
• three level plan with rear ancillary dwelling and four car garage
• first floor covered outdoor living deck with mashrabiya screens overlooking swimming pool courtyard
• second floor master suite with balcony and ocean views
As with all Mike Edwards Architecture projects, basic passive and solar design principles are taken into account from design inception. Considerable care is taken to optimise northern exposure and minimise eastern and western exposure to prevent undue solar gain in summer and take advantage of northern sun in winter. Suitable orientation and solar protection is integral.
Window and door openings are designed to facilitate flow-through and cross-ventilation as well as providing low-e glass and double glazing where required.
Appropriate specifications, material selection and building insulation is provided to more than adequately meet building code energy requirements.
LOCATION: Perth, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Concept Design & Visuals/Commercial/Urban
CLIENT: Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority
MIKE EDWARDS ARCHITECTURE was commissioned by the MRA to develop a built form concept to demonstrate the potential for this prime development site opposite Queens Gardens in East Perth.
LOCATION: Midland, Perth, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Commercial Architecture/Concept Design & 3D Visuals
FLOOR AREA: Approx. 1200sqm
Fremantle based commercial & residential architecture firm Mike Edwards Architecture was engaged to produce a preliminary concept design proposal and 3D images for this two storey commercial office building. The brief was to upgrade the front tenancies to be suitable for retail, restaurant & cafe uses and also to renew the 80's facade/awning to create a contemporary, lively and activated commercial street frontage.
LOCATION: Midland, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Mixed-use/Concept Design & Visuals
CLIENT: Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority
Fremantle based Mike Edwards Architecture were commissioned by the MRA to come up with a concept design and visual to demonstrate the development potential for a narrow-lot main street infill commercial/mixed-use lot in the City of Midland. The concept proposes the use of engineered timber construction for a ground floor commercial, courtyard and parking space with 4 residential units to the first and second floors.
LOCATION: Myaree, Western Australia
PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Concept Design & Visuals/Commercial Architecture/Mixed-Use
Multiple concept designs were explored for this mixed-use project which consists of office/commercial tenancies, warehouse/showroom space, basement parking and a cafe tenancy.
