Perversi-Brooks Architects

Perversi-Brooks Architects Perversi-Brooks Architects is a Hobart and Melbourne-based, design-focused architectural practice established in 2014.

Apparently I spent the day wildly gesticulating at attendees. Thanks to my sidekicks, and for being generous enough ...
09/11/2025

Apparently I spent the day wildly gesticulating at attendees. Thanks to my sidekicks, and for being generous enough to welcome the public through once again! Fun was had.

Looking forward to hosting this next week:A collaboration of ArchiTeam and Australian Architects Declare //Designing for...
12/06/2025

Looking forward to hosting this next week:

A collaboration of ArchiTeam and Australian Architects Declare //
Designing for Circularity: Life Cycle Assessment in Practice

DON’T MISS OUT! BOOK NOW!
THURS 19 JUNE: CPD - LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENTS
TIME: 10am - 12pm

Location: Zoom
CPD Points: 2 Formal Points
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Thinking about making your practice more sustainable this year, but not quite sure where to start?

Maybe you’ve heard of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), or even tried to use it, but found it hard to make sense of how it fits into real-world projects. This workshop is here to help.

Join us for a down-to-earth and practical session where we’ll unpack what LCA really means for small and medium practices—and how it can be integrated into your everyday design process.

We’ll be joined by Professor Usha Iyer-Raniga (RMIT University), who will introduce the big-picture ideas behind the circular economy and its role in addressing climate change through the built environment. Craig Harris and Zoe Zou from LID Consulting will walk us through current LCA tools and explain how to consider embodied carbon from the earliest stages of a project. Finally, Steffen Welsch (Steffen Welsch Architects, Architects Declare) will reflect on the process of applying LCA to the Life Cycle House—sharing what worked, what didn’t, and what he learned along the way.

Whether you’re new to LCA or looking to build on what you already know, this workshop offers a supportive space to gain insights, ask questions, and take the next step toward more sustainable practice.

Book your spot here: https://buff.ly/S8rL1tr









Beginning the year by posting a couple of projects currently on the drawing board.Formed as two high-pitched, copper cla...
02/02/2025

Beginning the year by posting a couple of projects currently on the drawing board.

Formed as two high-pitched, copper clad triangular building forms on a natural stone plinth, Two Triangles House overlooks some stunningly rugged coastline on Tasmania’s Tasman Peninsula.

Judges Citation for - winner of the residential alterations and additions up to $700K category.“Little Brick Cottage,...
23/11/2024


Judges Citation for - winner of the residential alterations and additions up to $700K category.

“Little Brick Cottage, crafted by Perversi-Brooks Architects, exemplifies how thoughtful and imaginative design can flourish within modest constraints of scale and budget. This project demonstrates an exceptional ability to harmonise with its heritage context while actively contributing to the evolving narrative of the area. Notably, the inverted triangulated roof pays homage to the iconic Mount Wellington, creating a striking silhouette.

The meticulous choice of materials and detailing in both the new additions and the renovated interiors showcases a refined aesthetic that elevates the overall experience. Excellent solar orientation introduces a dynamic range of lighting conditions, enriching the living environment.

The innovative boundary fence serves as a meaningful urban gesture, skillfully blending form, pattern, view and light, while cleverly incorporating a billboard. This design not only enhances the streetscape but also stands as a contemporary bookend, offering a progressive vision for South Hobart.

In the face of the housing affordability crisis, Little Brick Cottage emerges as a beacon of adaptive reuse and intelligent spatial planning, signalling a new era for residential design. Its civic gesture to the adjacent high street further underscores its commitment to community engagement, making it a noteworthy contribution to the architectural landscape.“

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Beyond thrilled to have won the award for residential alterations and additions up to $700K last night!Thank you so muc...
21/11/2024

Beyond thrilled to have won the award for residential alterations and additions up to $700K last night!

Thank you so much , and to the esteemed panel of judges: .agoston Laura Harding of Mark Simpson of and (Thanks particularly to Matthew Bird for some beautiful words - I’ll try track them down - sorry you were crook and couldn’t make it!)

A wonderfully unexpected result for a pretty humble little project amongst a field of outstanding entries. It’s lovely to have a project that sits at the lower end of the budget range - and a little bit outside the ‘norm’ of this hard working and very competitive category - recognised in this way.
(I’ll do my best to advocate for a

Little Brick Cottage - South Hobart, Tasmania.Despite its modest size the project is highly visible adjacent to a local ...
26/07/2024

Little Brick Cottage - South Hobart, Tasmania.

Despite its modest size the project is highly visible adjacent to a local supermarket carpark, and the building ‘book-ends’ a series of conjoined single story cottages, and so the ambition for Little Brick Cottage was to provide a small, but significant element within the urban streetscape.

The addition is formed as a kind of inverted silhouette to the existing Victorian-Georgian hipped gable roof. A triangular window and high pitched roof - ‘equal-but-opposite’ - to the heritage built form.

With thanks to our outstanding clients , and excellent builder

Photograph by .gibson.photo

New Early Childhood Centre building for Tarremah Steiner School. Located in Huntingfield, lutruwita (Tasmania), on the t...
28/06/2024

New Early Childhood Centre building for Tarremah Steiner School. Located in Huntingfield, lutruwita (Tasmania), on the traditional lands of the palawa/pakana people.

We’ve recently been engaged to design a third mixed-age kindergarten for Tarremah Steiner School, nestled into the grounds of the existing Early Childhood Centre.

It is an honour and a privilege to be able to contribute to the wonderful environment Morrison & Breytenbach Architects have helped form, with, and for the school over the last three decades. We’re excited to have the opportunity to add a small, but important part to the school which will hopefully contribute in a meaningful way to the community for many years to come.

Little Brick Cottage, South HobartThis month marks 10 years of Perversi-Brooks Architects, and so we thought we’d take t...
01/06/2024

Little Brick Cottage, South Hobart

This month marks 10 years of Perversi-Brooks Architects, and so we thought we’d take the opportunity to celebrate the occasion by sharing a selection of key projects over the life of the practice thus far. Here’s to the next 10!

Little Brick Cottage is a humble little alterations & additions to an 1850s heritage listed house in South Hobart, Tasmania. Our most recently completed project - and I just presented this one to the jury for the awards - wish us luck!

The addition is a contemporary interpretive design response to the existing heritage structure, responding to the height and angle of the clipped gable roof of the existing cottage by way of a small rear structure with a similarly pitched hybrid skillion/gable roof. The design responds to the idea of the silhouette profile of the existing cottage that ‘book-ends’ the row of similar cottages and which is read as a kind of roofscape profile, or gateway, to the South Hobart precinct against the ever-present backdrop of kunanyi / Mount Wellington.

The proposed ~20sqm addition provides a bathroom, kitchen and dining facilities contained within a new structure to the rear of the existing dwelling, replacing a dilapidated enclosed verandah and rear laundry shed and associated lean-to pergola/shade structures.

The fence and ‘soft’ landscaping - not part of the original scope of works - is the ‘icing on the cake’, has pulled the whole project together, and is a real insight into the client’s generosity really to the neighbourhood - a little public offering to the ‘civic space’ of the Salad Bowl car park - the silhouette of the building and fence acting in some small way as a kind gateway to the whole South Hobart village as you arrive up Macquarie Street. (Might be a bit of an overreach, but it’s how we envisioned the project!)

The outcome is a testament to a great working relationship between outstanding clients , an excellent builder , and our work as architects.

Currently waiting on getting .gibson.photo out to photograph this one properly once the landscape has settled in.

Little Brick Cottage, South HobartThis month marks 10 years of Perversi-Brooks Architects, and so we thought we’d take t...
31/05/2024

Little Brick Cottage, South Hobart

This month marks 10 years of Perversi-Brooks Architects, and so we thought we’d take the opportunity to celebrate the occasion by sharing a selection of key projects over the life of the practice thus far. Here’s to the next 10!

Little Brick Cottage is a humble little alterations & additions to an 1850s heritage listed house in South Hobart, Tasmania. Our most recently completed project - and I just presented this one to the jury for the awards - wish us luck!

The addition is a contemporary interpretive design response to the existing heritage structure, responding to the height and angle of the clipped gable roof of the existing cottage by way of a small rear structure with a similarly pitched hybrid skillion/gable roof. The design responds to the idea of the silhouette profile of the existing cottage that ‘book-ends’ the row of similar cottages and which is read as a kind of roofscape profile, or gateway, to the South Hobart precinct against the ever-present backdrop of kunanyi / Mount Wellington.

The proposed ~20sqm addition provides a bathroom, kitchen and dining facilities contained within a new structure to the rear of the existing dwelling, replacing a dilapidated enclosed verandah and rear laundry shed and associated lean-to pergola/shade structures.

The fence and ‘soft’ landscaping - not part of the original scope of works - is the ‘icing on the cake’, has pulled the whole project together, and is a real insight into the client’s generosity really to the neighbourhood - a little public offering to the ‘civic space’ of the Salad Bowl car park - the silhouette of the building and fence acting in some small way as a kind gateway to the whole South Hobart village as you arrive up Macquarie Street. (Might be a bit of an overreach, but it’s how we envisioned the project!)

The outcome is a testament to a great working relationship between outstanding clients , an excellent builder , and our work as architects.

Currently waiting on getting .gibson.photo out to photograph this one properly once the landscape has settled in.

Lymington HouseThis month marks 10 years of Perversi-Brooks Architects, and so we thought we’d take the opportunity to c...
30/05/2024

Lymington House

This month marks 10 years of Perversi-Brooks Architects, and so we thought we’d take the opportunity to celebrate the occasion by sharing a selection of key projects over the life of the practice thus far. Here’s to the next 10!

A new high-performance house located on Melukerdee County in Lymington Tasmania with wonderful views across Kangaroo Bay to the head of the mighty Huon River, and over the Port Cygnet Sailing Club up the Huon Valley.

The site is relatively steep with the usual challenges of Bushfire and Landslide Hazard overlays. The decision was made to terrace a series of separate pavilions down the hillside in order to maximise views and natural light to each of the individual elements of the building program: a ‘sleeping pavilion’ is located to the lower northern end of the structure, stepping up the hill to the main ‘living pavilion’, a ‘guest pavilion’ (for visiting friends, family, and short-stay accommodation) and finally a ‘parking and workshop pavilion’ located towards the top of hill. Simple timber-clad gable forms with lower linking elements unite the house as a whole, and ground the structure in the rural-agricultural landscape environment.

Humbled to be working with more incredible clients; climate ‘refugees’ from Tamworth, who have recently moved to Tasmania in search of a better lifestyle, cooler climate, water security (comparatively at least), superior soil quality and better growing conditions.

Address

105 Glen Huon Road
Huonville, TAS
7109

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9am - 5:30pm
Friday 9am - 5:30pm

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+61421850818

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