Design & Make Architects

26/03/2025

Followed by a stimulating & inspiring few days at the 2025 Future Whenua Summit at Lake Hawea Station talking all things regenerative. As always the calibre of presenters & attendees was incredible. Thank you Zebulon Lafe Horrell for connecting everyone 🙏

26/03/2025

Then watching Ben & the team at Hiberna Modular fabricate their awesome Straw panels on their bespoke production line...

26/03/2025

An amazing few days...starting with some in depth discussions on all things h**p at H**p Central...

02/03/2025

Now the cladding is ready to go on the interior earthen floor and tadelakt plaster samples are underway. Can't wait to see some natural materials in this architectural home...

11/02/2025

Excited about participating in NZBERS 2025 at Massey School of Built Environment today and meeting with all the great people involved who are committed to working toward a better built environment.

Pioneering Research and Collaboration in the Built Environment. Bringing together experts and innovators to advance sustainable, interdisciplinary solutions for a better tomorrow.

11/02/2025

Waking up to the sky tower this morning...

04/11/2024

Can't wait to talk clay straw h**p with all the amazing speakers and attendees at this year's conference this weekend

Just a week to go before we close registrations for this year's EBANZ conference. So if you are thinking of coming, now is the time to sign up for this awesome conference. Some of the highlight speakers come from Architecture, Academia and Building backgrounds: Graeme North, Min Hall, Verena Maeder, Kirstie Wulf and Satprem (Earth Institute India).
https://www.earthbuilding.org.nz/conference/

01/05/2024

Over 150 primary schoolpupils rolled their sleeves up and got stuck into history this week — developing an appreciation for one of Alexandra’s most...

01/05/2024

In 2022 we taught several school students across Southland, Otago and Central Otago the benefits of using natural materials when builidng. Last year we built on this and taught Enviroschools facilitators to run workshops in Natural Building techniques. Since then the Enviroschools team have been doing some amazing things across the lower south island....

After inspiration from an Ecological Building hui, Warrington students have embraced ecological building principles and are working towards creating their own special eco-hut.

01/05/2024

01/05/2024

Very proud of our Graduate Architect Elizabeth Norris for making it to the finals of the NZGBC Future Thinker of the Year Awards. Elizabeth is passionate about sustainable architecture particularly the use of Natural Building techniques such as strawbale, adobe and earthen floors. She is a Passive House designer and Homestar assessor & is always striving to ensure our projects are not just beautiful but also high performing and low carbon. We will post some of the projects she is working on over the next few days.