We are an innovative, professional architectural practice committed to achieving design excellence for all our projects.
DESIGN APPROACH
Brenchley Architects is not founded on ego. We believe successful architecture is a collaborative effort of both client and architect. The client is as much a member of the design team as the architect.
Our design approach is based on producing architecture that will stand the test of time. Time, cost and quality are the foundation points for all our work.
We design specifically for the project at hand. Our designs respond to the local environs, site, and brief. We constantly search for opportunities to innovate with building materials and typologies.
Brenchley Architects strive to incorporate all facets of an ecologically sustainable architecture into our designs.
GREEN + SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
As a profession architects have an obligation to practice in such a way that will ensure continued and stylish co-habitation within a complex stressed environment and multi-faceted eco-system.
In short we need to be sustainable. There are no half measures.
"Do or do not, there is no try" Yoda
Brenchley Architects believes you can live without air-conditioning in a properly designed building. To be fair we also believe you can live without the colour beige.
Our buildings are designed with extraordinary Environmentally Sustainable Design(ESD) and passive design features. In all we aim to 'future proof' our buildings and enrich the lives of our clients in the process.
The only way to the future is to be sustainable in the present.
SERVICES
Brenchley Architects offers the following services over the full range of architectural projects:
- Acquisition & Feasibility studies, including
- Renovation Reports
- Site Feasibility and Planning Analysis
- Space Planning
- Schematic Design
- Design Development
- Development Application Documentation Packages
- Consultant coordination
- Construction Certificates Documentation Packages
- Tender & Contract Administration documents
- Contract Administration
- Town Planning
- Landscape Design
- Site attendance
Interior Design
Brenchley Architects can be commissioned in a variety of ways, including traditional full services, design and document, or a combination. As each project is treated individually the approach can be flexible.
Experience
The practice was established by Julian Brenchley in 1992.
Our experience is in the design and documentation of all full range of building types:
- Residential buildings, alterations and additions
- New Houses
- Commercial office buildings
- Community health centres
- Historic an adaptive re-use of heritage buildings
- Hotels and leisure facilities
- Multi-unit housing
- Public housing
- Residential buildings, alterations and additions
- Restaurant and bar fitout
- Retail building refurbishment
- Secondary and tertiary educational campuses