Brutal Art Design + Build is a Melbourne based, multiple HIA Award Winning team of residential designers and builders that collaborate together from start to finish to deliver custom subdivision, property development & new home services for our clients.
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www.brutalart.com.au Suite 101 | McPherson’s Building | 546-566 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000
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profile
“This often brutal and Brutal Art Design + Build is a Melbourne based, multiple
always mercenary HIA Award Winning team of residential designers and
industry is, in fact, builders that collaborate together from start to finish to
involuntarily directed deliver custom subdivision, property development & new
at a remote distance by home services for our clients.
intellectual and artistic Let your development project benefit from our award
passion beyond its winning Design + Build services!
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manifesto
-Robyn Boyd At Brutal Art, we exercise DESIGN RESTRAINT: taking
things out to keep things simple, and making these few
simple things good.
At Brutal Art, we are PROCESS DRIVEN: respond to
change, able to adapt and remain flexible.
At Brutal Art, we drive EARLY IMPLEMENTATION:
preventing potential issues by gathering information first,
making early decisions with end buildability in mind.
At Brutal Art, we offer a COMPLETE SERVICE: overseeing
the entire process with a mutual benefit attitude for all
stakeholders, ensuring smooth transition between each
step.
At Brutal Art, we value FREQUENT COLLABORATION: small
amounts of communication often is paramount, keeping all
parties up to date at all times.
At Brutal Art, we are SITE SPECIFIC: maximising
the opportunities of the site context – physically,
environmentally, socially, economically and culturally.
At Brutal Art, we THINK GLOBALLY: responding to relevant
contemporary issues and applying a local solution.
At Brutal Art, we are PROBLEM SOLVERS: using the power
of design to find answers to the issues.
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www.brutalart.com.au Suite 101 | McPherson’s Building | 546-566 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000
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team
Christian Burnside
Director
Heather Davis
Project Manager
Simone Schenkel Simone is one of the core team here at Brutal Art Design
Designer & Sustainability + Build, being one of the first to be hired several years
Consultant ago. She continues to be a key influencer in our design
thinking, applying the much stricter German detail and
sustainability standards and philosophies to our team
here in Australia.
Esther Sugihto She is a key influencer in holistic design – understanding
Lead Designer & Planning the role architecture plays in the context of the Australian
Consultant lifestyle.
Esther also brings a wealth of Design + Build experience
from internationally reknowned European and Australian
architects.
Adam Sugihto
Communications and
Technology
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www.brutalart.com.au Suite 101 | McPherson’s Building | 546-566 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000
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The 7 Steps Process
The 7 Steps are seven natural, sequential groupings
of tasks that must be accomplished for any property
development project:
* Step 1: Assessment
* Step 2: Strategy
* Step 3: Concept
* Step 4: Application
* Step 5: Detail
* Step 6: Build
* Step 7: Realisation
Each of the 7 Steps has a goal that serves as a significant
milestone for the project:
Step 1: Assessment • To provide a Property Development Assessment that
gives a project a High (good to go), Medium (Proceed
with caution) or Low (no go) level of confidence to
proceed – before spending too much time or money.
Step 2: Strategy • To produce a Strategic Business Plan for the project
that will ensure all project partners (financier,
accountant, solicitor, planners, architect & builder etc)
are on the same page.
Step 3: Concept • To produce concept drawings that satisfy Size-Finish-
Cost criteria and have pre-planning approval.
Step 4: Application • To obtain a Town Planning Permit.
Step 5: Detail • To produce a detailed working drawing and
documentation package.
Step 6: Build • To complete the dwellings with Certificate of
Occupancy and individual titles (where subdivision is
involved).
Step 7: Realisation • To realise your return on investment
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New Home Services
Be an Architect for a Day A unique opportunity to see your design ideas guided and translated
onto paper in real time!
Establish a Concept Design Allow your dream home to come to life in a detailed Concept Sketch
& 3D model.
Obtain a Planning Permit Where necessary, engage our services to arrange for a Planning
Permit for your new home.
Assemble a Working Add construction details to your drawings in order to obtain your
Drawings Package Building Permit.
Manage the Build Engage our services to faithfully see your dream home come to life.
Subdivision and
Development Services
Early assessment of Find out if a property you own or wish to purchase STCA is suitable
Development Potential for subdivision / development.
Obtain early Council Find out how Council views your subdivision / development before
feedback you spend time and money on a Town Planning application.
Establish a Concept Design Distill your brief into a detailed Concept Sketch & 3D model.
Obtain a Planning Permit Ensure your subdivision / development progresses successfully
through the Planning Permit Application process
Assemble a Working Add construction details to your drawings in order to obtain your
Drawings Package Building Permit.
Manage the Build Engage our services to faithfully translate your multi-unit
development from paper into bricks and mortar.
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project name Surrey Hills House
date Completed 2008
awards 2008-09 HIA CSR winner
Residential Alterations
and Additions
design statement
The Surrey Hills house attempts to redefine the concept
of suburban renovation and adaptation. The framing
of the house was stripped back to its skeletal timber
members, forming the basis of a major renovation while
retaining as much of the existing conditions as possible.
An additional front articulation mas was added to create a
formal entry into the building - a deliberate central voided
space.
Programmatically, the living/dining/kitchen area is located
in the north wing; bedrooms and other associated
ancillary rooms are located in the south wing.
This project exemplifies the ability of a client/builder/
designer collaboration. The builder suggested to retain
the existing structure in an effort to minimise costs and
promote a sustainable agenda. Whilst there are more
unknowns for the designer in the retention of the old, all
issues were design-solved in a process driven approach.
Further, it evolves from a discourse of history with layers
of meaning, encouraging a narrative of the site that is not
present in new construction.
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project name Rivulet
date November 2007-present
project type residential estate design
site area 20,000 sqm
council Nillumbik Shire Council
design statement
Rivulet is the urban design scheme for a spectacular
20 hectare vacant creek-side site in Diamond Creek,
approximately 25km NE of Melbourne. The approved
development is a 79-lot subdivision; a combination of
single houses, townhouses and apartments ranging
from one to five bedroom dwellings, and a mix of social
housing and privately owned residences.
Rivulet is an exercise in a successful design-led town
planning process with a deliberate sustainability agenda.
It demonstrates how to listen to the council, liaise with
the council, respond to feedback from the council, and
ultimately serve up a design solution that exceeds their
own housing policy documents. Its an example of mutual
benefit where the client’s desires to develop the land
and council’s need for innovative housing proposals are
aligned. This results in a showcase project that promotes
the natural vegetation and topography of the specific site,
and aims to create a quality of housing that - from an
Ecologically Sustainable Design perspective - thinks global
and acts local.
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www.brutalart.com.au Suite 101 | McPherson’s Building | 546-566 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000
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www.brutalart.com.au Suite 101 | McPherson’s Building | 546-566 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000
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project name Derring Lane houses
date completed Nov 2009
project type two lot subdivision
site area 550 sqm
council Kingston City Council
design statement
The Derring Lane houses are two luxury 3 bedroom units
on a corner site in Cheltenham. There was an opportunity
to create a design statement using bold forms, a mixed
palette of materials and articulation with overhangs and
setbacks. Both houses sit prominently on the site and
relate to each other, but retain their own personality
also. This is an example of how to maximise the site
and use land to create two large family homes on a
relatively small footprint - an example of successful urban
consolidation.
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12. Bedroom
Bedroom
Retreat
Retreat Bedroom
UNIT 2
UNIT 1
Balcony
Bedroom Foyer
Bedroom Balcony
Bedroom
First Floor Plan
1:200
Garage Garage
Dining
UNIT 2
UNIT 1
Porch Entry
Dining
Entry
Living
Living Porch
Ground Floor Plan
N
1:200
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project name Allanby
date completed TP 2009
project type three lot subdivision
site area 929 sqm
council Glen Eira City Council
design statement
The Allanby project is a contemporary design of three
townhouses in Ormond. It utilises common materials in
residential housing in a new manner with bold formal
gestures. The sweeping roof is designed to open up the
facade to the north, whilst protecting the existing amenity
of the neighbours to the south. There is a large thermal
massive wall running through the townhouses - this is
designed to act as an internal wayfinding guide as well as
providing a connecting visual cue across the site.
The dwellings are all designed with Ecologically
Sustainable Design principles (ESD) at their core. The
passive techniques of north facing living areas, external
shading devices, deep overhangs on the appropriate
orientations plus many other considerations contribute to
the thermal comfort of the internal occupants and lower
embodied energy of construction materials and lower life
cycle costs. In short, this is a design which aims for low
carbon emissions.
1700
1400
existing crossover 6500
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Company Brutal Art Design + Build
Address Suite 101
McPherson’s Building
546-566 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Phone +61 3 9620 2241
Fax +61 3 9621 1452
Web www.brutalart.com.au
Email enquiry@brutalart.com.au
brutal art
www.brutalart.com.au Suite 101 | McPherson’s Building | 546-566 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000
p +61 3 9620 2241 | f +61 3 9621 1452 | enquiry@brutalart.com.au
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