As an award winning sustainable architectural practice we make environmentally sound, beautiful places to shelter, live and work.

 

 

 

stephen sainsbury architect

SSa Logo            We undertake the architectural process in the belief that environmentally aware buildings can be luxurious, inspiring and delightful places to live, work and play.  The practice aim is to achieve the highest possible aesthetic return for the lowest achievable ecological impact.

 

 

 

 

A STATEMENT OF PRACTICE

 

As an academic, architect and builder, Stephen Sainsbury architect specialises in environmentally and

ecologically sound architecture and building, in the creation of beautiful places to shelter. 

 

As we are also builders, we come to the practice of architecture with deep experience of making buildings happen and

the belief that the physical creation of artifacts is an essential part of understanding how to bring beautiful buildings in to being.

 

The practice believes in keeping in full contact with the physical process of the creation of the building

and in the creation of exemplary works of architecture in the hope of inspiring others that environmentally

aware buildings can be luxurious, inspiring and beautiful places to live work and play. 

 

The aim of the practice is to achieve the highest possible aesthetic return for the lowest achievable ecological impact. 

 

SSarch states that in their view buildings have always been the most obvious and long lived statements of a culture's values.  

 

If, in the making of our buildings, ways are found to lessen the consumption of resources, this engenders not only a

reduction in the detrimental impact of our culture directly, but also affects the way things are done in other areas.  

 

We believe ecologically sensitive buildings will come to symbolise a more mature environmentally aware culture. 

 

 

We have taken our motto from Glen Murcutt's famous saying

 

'Touch the Earth Lightly'

 

We take this both literally and metaphorically.

 

 

 

WE ARE, OF COURSE, A MULTIDISCPLINARY, MULTI AWARD WINNING, NATIONWIDE PRACTICE

and can do anything, anytime, anywhere...

 

 

We are a small practice, dispersed around Australia (and sometimes around the world)

using some pretty powerful internet tools and systems to create a secure virtual office.

 

We are mainly set up in sydney, in the inner west suburn of Newtown,

with an office in an old morgue we have renovated.

 

We also do a lot of building in Tasmania and have a base on Flinders Island.

 

We try to be at the cutting edge of design technology and use advanced virtual space

modelling systems to create our designs in full scale 3d models in CyberSpace,

where we can take our clients to look through their building as it evolves.

 

We have worked in the remotest areas of the country and on outlying islands,

and know how to get things built in the most challenging of environments with the least environmental impact.

 

There are brief summaries of the way we practice architecture and building on those links.

 

and a history of the practice here