From concept to delivery, Archipelago offers
holistic expertise in architecture, urban design, landscape and strategic planning.
Our Services
Our thoughtful consideration of the bigger picture –
including how different services interact and
complement one another demonstrates our
thorough understanding of industry requirements,
regulations, expectations and opportunities.
We believe architecture does not exist in isolation,
so our services and expertise don’t either.
Our Expertise
- Full architectural design and documentation services
- Site testing
- Feasibility studies and business cases
- Due diligence
- Interior architecture including furniture and finishes specification
- Research and publications
- 3D Modelling, fly-throughs + renders + visualisations
- Graphic design
- Corridor + land use strategies
- Graphic communication – illustrative, diagrammatic + urban sketch
- Master planning
- Precinct / neighbourhood strategy + design
- Feasibility studies and business cases
- Due diligence
- Character assessment
- Public life analysis
- Graphic design
- Development guidelines
- Built form guidelines
- Public realm guidelines + public art guidelines
- City wide visioning
- Site design + precedent studies
- Corridor + land use strategies
- Full landscape architectural design and documentation services
- Softscape and hardscape treatments of public realm and built form
- Public domain strategies
- Place activation strategies
- Place-scaled design
- Integrated urban design & landscape architecture design treatment in major transport infrastructure (roadways, bridges, rail and airports)
The Archipelago
Framework
Our approach, driven by creative ideas and grounded in evidence-based research, unveils opportunities often unseen at a project’s inception. This methodology ensures we reach positive, transformative outcomes.
Our portfolio of city-shaping master plans and extensive urban projects showcases our ability to harness opportunities within the context. We unlock each site’s full potential, crafting public spaces and respectful buildings that enhance the unique character of the neighbourhoods we engage with.
Looking widely, we are able to discern opportunities, patterns, and connections. This results in improved project quality and amenity, without compromising on cost-effectiveness.
The value we infuse through design benefits not only our clients but also those who live, learn, work, and play in the places we shape.
Our Framework
Our Approach to
Delivering Enduring Value
People
People are central to our ethos. We infuse people-centric design into our entire process, from idea inception to stakeholder engagement and the ultimate user experience.
We value good communication, diversity, inclusivity and authentic approaches to collaboration between clients, stakeholders, and consultants, fostering shared knowledge to achieve outstanding project outcomes.
Cities
Our expanding Australian cities yield vibrant hubs for people to live, work and play. Archipelago approach each project with best-for-city outcomes in mind. Regardless of scale, each project should prioritise human experience and enduring value. We harness the interconnectedness of urban spaces, looking beyond the boundary of the site to leverage a two-way value exchange and project uplift.
Design
The relationship between buildings, landscapes and the space between is intrinsic and essential. Working together across disciplines, Archipelago’s ability to create integrated, responsive design strategies and compelling urban propositions is at the centre of our creative practice. We immerse ourselves in understanding context, Country, culture, and community, approaching each p
Our Sectors
Major Urban Projects
Major urban projects and large-scale developments have the potential to make the greatest contribution and benefit to our cities. The creation of vibrant, connected places for people is central to any future development.
Housing + Lifestyle
We bring big ideas underpinned by strategic thinking to every housing project to provide innovative living solutions that support the growth of our knowledge economy and the sustainability of our future cities.
Public Realm + Open space
By working together early in the design process, landscape architecture is integrated with architecture, providing high quality indoor / outdoor spaces which engage with and celebrate our subtropical climate.
Interiors
Our integrated architecture and interiors teams work together to develop the vision, select furniture and finishes and document three-dimensionally, which translates into a cohesive design strategy.
Transport +Infrastucture
We look beyond the traditional engineering and economic feasibility aspects of transport + infrastructure systems to understand the wider public realm benefits of the significant investment required in a new or existing movement system.
Community
From youth hubs to club houses to performing arts centres, we understand the importance of community infrastructure in creating meaningful and memorable focal places which celebrate inclusivity and connectivity.
Commercial
From transit-oriented developments, to commercial and mixed-use towers, we generate value by negotiating and unifying the operational, social, and economic imperatives of the project through shared visions that are both creative and pragmatic.
Health + Knowledge
Our multi-disciplinary team design buildings and campus master plans for universities, hospitals, science, research and advanced manufacturing facilities where knowledge is created, exchanged and transformed.
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