Committed to contributing to broader architectural discourse and debating issues both within the profession and to the broader community, StudioHC | Research has been widely published across a number of journals, websites and magazines including in the Architecture Bulletin, The Conversation, Houses Magazine, Involved Magazine, The V Estate.

Reconsider, Reconfigure, Reimagine: A Sustainable Lesson from Adaptive Reuse

Architecture Bulletin (Australia) | 2019

Responding to the Bulletin’s theme of Climate Crisis, this article posits that architects must fundamentally rethink how cycles of demolition and construction operate within the build environment. It argues that it is far too easy to continually demolish and build anew and that adaptive reuse enables us to shift our thinking into a more sustainable and sensitive approach to our urban fabric.

How Chinese Courtyard Housing can Help Older Australian Women Avoid Homelessness

The Conversation (Australia) | 2021

Australia urgently needs housing types that meet the needs of older women facing homelessness. One such model is Chinese siheyuan courtyard housing, which provides safe, affordable and private living spaces while maintaining a sense of community. It has potential for adapting existing buildings for re-use in Australia in a way that makes financial, social and environmental sense.

Critiquing a Culture of Critical Criticism

Architecture Bulletin (Australia) | 2020

Examining the issues of anxiety, stress and overwork experienced by students at architecture school, this article, working in tandem with leading business consultants and psychiatrists, begins to un-package how we should be changing design studio culture to promote better wellbeing and healthier environments for learning in architecture.

Wrecking Balls are A-swinging: Rethinking the Demolition Mindset

The V Estate - Spinifex Opinion (Australia) | 2021

A quick fire response to the NSW Treasurer's 'tongue-in-cheek' article on ten buildings he'd like to demolish. This article argues that the desire for demolition remains within the traditional 'cradle-to-grave' model of thinking, in a time when we should be focusing on recycling and reuse to push for a circular approach to construction.

Capital Punishment

Involved Magazine (United Kingdom) | 2021

Capital Punishment looks at the way in which architecture has been used as a tool of seduction under capitalism, exacerbating Hong Kong's continued housing crisis and presents a call to arms for architects by asking one simple thing: Architecture or Capitalism?