The Courier Mail mentioned Heise Architecture’s relocation in the friday edition of the newspaper. Our team have settled into our office and we shall post some images and a video tour in the next few weeks. Thankyou to all our staff who helped us with the move and a special thankyou to Rachel who built all of our new furniture.
We’ve recently received positive feedback from our client, Meriel Stanger, regarding our involvement with her residential project.
Image: Multi-use free standing storage units on castor wheels to cater for future flexibility. These units also incorporate indoor planting to assist in providing a healthy and comfortable work environment.
Last year Heise Architecture was invited to design and document the refurbishment of all of the WorkCover South East Queensland offices. The project brief required that the design accommodate an increased capacity, from an initial 40 staff, up to 120 people. With an additional 80 staff, the works also required the maintenance and upgrade of existing staff amenities. Being an office for WorkCover Queensland, the fit out had to be exemplary in terms of its compliance with workplace health and safety legislation and general standards for a safe and equitable workplace. The design responded to all of these requirements providing the client, and their staff, with a pleasant and healthy working environment.
All of this had to be delivered within a tight time frame, that Heise Architecture managed to successfully achieve. Working as lead consultant on the project, Heise architecture managed a team including; structural engineer, mechanical and electrical engineer, audio visual designer and building certifier to provide a high quality design solution on time.
Image: Open plan workstations with clip-on fabric acoustic screens to provide aural comfort and privacy while still allowing for ease of re-arrangement in the case of future staff changes.
Visible in this shot is the colour scheme in action, the bright storage units act to break up the workstation scheme and assist as a way finding device through the fit out.
Aaron has been working in the Architecture industry for over 9 years with his experience stemming from a broad range of projects. His knowledge ranges from and is not limited to residential and multi residential (low and high budgets), holiday resorts, small scale commercial projects, Assisted living developments and a vast array of educational facilities.
From commencing his Architectural education in the Northern Territory he later completed the remainder of his graduate studies in Queensland where he was able to incorporate the sub-tropical design practises that first prompted him to explore his passion for Architectural design. The earlier stage of his career mainly focussed on a spectrum of projects located at the Sunshine Coast and Northern areas of Queensland, most recently Aaron has been involved with education projects that have stemmed from the Governments BERs (Building the Education Revolution) program. Heise would like to take this chance to welcome Aaron to the team and we look forward to the exciting projects ahead.
Anyone within the Brisbane precinct would remember the infamous moment witnessing the New Farm river walk float down the Brisbane river during the floods in early 2011. Stemming from this incident Heise Architecture was approached to put together a concept for a permanent barrier where the river walk entrance in New Farm once linked the trendy suburb to the Brisbane CBD. Upon visiting the site where the rescued stainless steel elements from the board walk now lay Heise Architecture endeavoured to recycle these useable elements in creating a sustainable Architectural Statement. The project was approached with the mindset of creating a sculptural interpretation that acted as both art and public fencing. The initial steel members that were accounted for were scheduled once incorporated into the design so the size and position of all elements could be tracked.
Client: Forest Systems Australia
Status: Schematic
Tectonic: Stainless Steel System.
Typology: Public
Budget: Not released
Area: 60m²
Heise Team: Florian Heise
Contractor: Undisclosed
The Laneway analysis project was designed to make familiar our CBD Urban context and the specific design techniques incorporated to create human occupancy and positive activity. The project has acted as a topological study towards the fundamentals in laneway structure and culture. incorporating urban analysis techniques a team of four compiled a detailed analysis of nine laneways and there surrounding streetscapes within the Brisbane CBD. Through photography, scaled drawings and hand sketched vinyets the team has compiled a thorough documentation of the analysed laneways.
Throughout the project all documentation and drawing styles were based on the Allan. B. Jacobs publication ‘Great Streets.’ Team members looked at interpreting the sketching style used throughout the book to obtain a uniform set of drawings.
“Streets moderate the form, structure and comfort of urban communities.Their sizes and arrangements afford or deny light and shade. They may have the effect of focussing attention and activities on one or many centers, at the edges, along a line or they may simply not direct one’s attention to anything in particular.” Allan B. Jacobs
Overall the analysis was a success. From here the Heise team plan on having an in-house Design Competition to bounce conceptual ideas around to delve further into potential activation methods of these Laneways
As more and more great projects are coming in Heise has found the need to expand its team. For the last two months Alex has worked hard to establish his place in the Heise team.
Alex is currently a third year architectural student at the Queensland University of Technology with a keen focus on BIM technologies and architectural visualisation. Currently Alex is developing his skills with BIM Server and rendering technologies to constantly push the envelope of what the architectural profession is capable of in terms of design efficiency, collaboration, visualisation and communications with clients and colleagues.
In addition to his belief in the power and flexibility of BIM, Alex’s approach to design is heavily influenced by the principles of ‘performative’ architecture. For the future of the built environment, architecture should advance beyond just formal and aesthetic invention, such that architecture is less a passive improvement and more an active accelerant, setting up and providing for new conditions and uncertain futures.
In the coming months, Alex will be closely involved in a diverse range of projects as well as the establishment and maintainance of the firms BIM standards and quality assurance. We look forward to working with him here at Heise Architecture.
As our workload increases it was inevitable that we would need to employ more staff members, therefore we would like to introduce to you one our newest staff members, Adam Perring!
Currently a third year architectural student at the Queensland University of Technology, Adam was hired for his work which was short-listed in the 2011 Brisbane Ideas Competition as well as his professionalism and effort when involved with the Heise Architecture work experience program.
Coming from a rural background and extensive travels throughout South-East Asia, Adam is passionate about the need for vernacular design within architecture and the way that this style can be employed to create spaces which never seem to lose their intrigue. Sustainability plays a key role in his development of design, seen in his work based around flood-resilience which was exhibited at the 2011 Bouncing Back Exhibition.
Over the next few months Adam will be cutting his teeth on a variety of large and small scale projects and we look forward to the time he will spend with us here at Heise Architecture.
Elizabeth, most commonly known as Libby has been with Heise Architecture since its pre-existing foundations. With a committed positivity towards the success of Heise Architecture Libby has been an integral member in this first year of practising. Often wanting to remain hidden behind her work this is a chance for Heise to introduce to you a valued member of the Heise Architecture team.
Libby just like Jared is a 4th year Architecture student at Queensland University of Technology. Ambitiously grasping every opportunity at hand Libby has an attitude that will open many doors in life. Her extensive travels throughout Asia and America including her recent Architectural tour of Europe with fellow university design students and lecturers has only fuelled her passion for sustainable architecture. From the design tour Libby saw first hand how civilisations worldwide are combatting sustainability in relation to an array of diverse design methods. The importance of enhancing efficiency and moderation through the use of materials, energy and space were all reiterated and encouraged her to become a member of the Australian Green Development Forum.
Over the next few months Libby will be heavily involved with establishing the 2012 Brisbane ideas competition to rival last year’s extremely successful launch. Be sure to hear a lot from Libby in the near future!
With Heise Architecture constantly on the climb for architectural domination, it was only time until a new team member would be needed to conquer the workload at hand. Heise Architecture would like to welcome Jared Webb to the team.
Jared is a young and budding fourth year architecture student from Queensland University of Technology. With a Diploma in Building Design already under his belt he is an ambitious young man with a great passion for the architectural industry, and through his great passion makes him the perfect candidate for Heise Architecture.
With a zest for adventure Jared draws much of his architectural passion from travelling extensively throughout the world and experiencing the diverse and many cultures our world has to offer.
He is Intrigued by the idea of how architectural form can be manipulated to sculpt the way in which we inhabit our day to day lives, how architecture is essentially a sculptured aesthetic that acts as a living art piece through not only form, but purpose. Be sure to hear a lot from Jared in the upcoming future, he will be editing the Heise Architecture Blog alongside fellow classmate and work colleague Libby Ure. Heise is very excited to be expanding the architectural team and looks forward to what’s ahead, it’s great to have you on board Jared!
Original Post: (Mar 02 – 2011)
The exhibition for the 2011 Brisbane Ideas Competition was officially opened last Friday and with about 200 people attending the event throughout the night we believe it was a success. If you are in Brisbane make sure to drop past the Coffee Supplier to view the exhibition between the 25th of February and the 25th of March. Please download this Invitation for directions to the Cafe. We have also produced a publication of all of the stage two entries for the competition, which can be previewed in flash online here.
Updated Post:
All physical copies of the publication have now sold out and are no longer avalible to be ordered. Because so many people have enjoyed the publication, we have decided to make The 2011 BIC Publication, containing all of the stage two entries freely available as a PDF download. (20 mbs)
Dear Students,
Holiday Work Experience Opportunity with Heise Architecture
Due to a significant increase in workload, Heise Architecture has an opportunity for some unpaid mid-year holiday work experience. We are looking for four Architecture students to work together as a team and undertake some urban scale field research, under the supervision of one of our Directors and Architects Assistants. The students would gain experience in preparing existing condition drawing, sections, elevations, analysis diagrams and participate in studio workshops to prepare conceptual designs for a series of proposed interventions.
The urban scale field research would require producing plans and sections similar to those found in ‘Great Streets’ by Allan B. Jacobs. The conceptual designs would be completed using Revit 2012 and would be a great opportunity to improve (or learn) Revit. We are looking for students who are responsible, professional and hard working. All of the work experience would be completed during the mid year break and as it is Architect supervised all time can count towards your AACA registration logbook.
If you are interested in applying for this opportunity, please email florian.heise@heise.com.au with your resume and a brief cover letter. The deadline for applications is Thursday the 30th of June and for insurance purposes is only available to QUT Architecture students.
Kind Regards,
Florian Heise
Download the PDF Letter – 0116_Student Work Experience
Recently Rachel and I gave a public lecture about the 2011 Brisbane Ideas Competition. The topic of the lecture was Urban Retrofitting, which was remarkably aligned to the entry outcomes of stage two entries we received for the competition. All of the entries and interviews are still avaliable from the competition website http://competition.heise.com.au and should be online for the foreseeablefuture. The 2012 competition website should be avaliable shortly.
The pdf of the lecture is avaliable from the following link, please note that it is a 14mb download.
2011 BIC Lecture (PDF, 14mb)
The Flood Adaptive Queenslander which our team recently complete for the Flood of Ideas Competition has been featured in this month’s (May 2011) issue of Timberman. We are very happy that our proposal is receiving wider converage and believe the debate concerning reuse before demolition is topical and current.
Download a PDF scan of the file here.
2011.058.17_Flood Adaptive_Press
The exhibition of all of the stage two entrants for the 2011 Brisbane Ideas Competition is now on 24 hour public display at the Queensland University of Technology. On display for the next few weeks, all of the work can be viewed by the general public at level 1 of D-block on the Gardens Point Campus.
Thanks to the Heise Architecture team member, Libby Ure for mounting the exbition and to QUT for providing the venue.
The Bibby extension was a small residential extension for a couple and their children in suburban Brisbane. The project involved a kitchen refurbishment a new en-suite and a study space extension for a students bedroom. The main challenge of the project involved addressing the west facade of the outdoor living area. Every afternoon the space would fill full of light, creating a hot and uncomfortable space which would filter through the building.
Our design addressed these issues, with two simple techniques; filtering the western light and increasing ventilation. Increased ventilation was provided by raising the level of the existing outdoor roof above that of the house, to provide heated air with an escape path. Ceiling fans were also included in this outdoor area to increase the air movement and comfort for the occupants. The western light was filtered on the western facade by a series of timber panels, with a leaf pattern laser-cut into them. This leaf pattern allows us to create a subtle relationship to the surrounding environment, while provide beautiful patterns as the sun moves through the sky
Client: Bibby Family
Status: Under Construction
Tectonic: Timber, Laser-cut exterior cladding.
Typology: Residential
Budget: Not released
Area: 52m²
Heise Team: Florian Heise
Contractor: Owner Builder
Florian Heise of Heise Architecture was recently interviewed by Chris Herde of the Courier Mail about the 2011 Brisbane Ideas Competition.
A PDF scan of the article is available below.
Heise Architecture’s proposal for the Flood of Ideas website was recently featured on the Architecture and Design Website.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of experiencing my first Radio Interview. Richard Fidler of Afternoons with Richard Fidler contact me to discuss the 2011 Brisbane Ideas Competition and Brisbane City Architecture. While obviously nervous I believe the interview went well and it helped spread and legitimize the discussion which is being generated from the 2011 Brisbane Ideas Competition.
A link to listen to the interview is available here.
