![]() ![]() “The rear of the site is sloping so we could place our ideas on that site virtually in SketchUp and see how they worked. ![]() “We used SketchUp for a lot of testing with this project,” Chris said. The result are two, three-storey dwellings that have well exceeded the brief and expectations of the client, and are, for the most part, completely off-grid a rarity for projects of this scale and this location. The clients, a couple who are passionate environmentalists and both have a professional and personal history of work in sustainable industries and activism, approached Field Office in 2014 seeking a young architecture practice to help realise their dreams of building two highly-sustainable, ‘eco-townhouses’, one for themselves in retirement, the other for close friends and family. The dwellings sit side-by-side on two narrow blocks and offer sweeping views of Melbourne and the CBD. “There’s never a feeling of being fully locked in to a design approach like you may feel with other software”.Ĭlifton Hill Terraces is a dual townhouse development occupying the site of two previous dilapidated townhouses in the dense inner-city suburb of Clifton Hill. “We love the simplicity of SketchUp, and the way in which literally all types of forms and geometries are easily and quickly ‘test-able’. “We can quickly get the ideas on paper into SketchUp and ‘test’ them – SketchUp allows us to see easily if the ideas will actually work. “We continue that process until we are happy with the ideas,” he said. While each project has its difference and nuances, Chris said the process often followed a pattern of sketches and ideas being translated into SketchUp, tinkered with and then printed out for more ideas to be hand-sketched over that. ![]() “I can’t imagine doing what we do without it,” he said. Principal Chris Barnes’ use of the program began in his final year of university, in 2006, and he says he sees it as a vital tool for the way they work. SketchUp has been part of the practice since its inception. In an ever-cluttered world, we help create well-crafted and affordable spaces for people that calm and restore”. Life without SketchUp? No thanks, says Field Office Architecture, an award-winning practice based in Melbourne, Australia.Įstablished in 2014, the practice believes in the “beauty of simplicity and designing to the essential. ![]()
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