The Brickworks Living Building Challenge Design Competition
The Living Future Institute of Australia, in its first collaboration with Frasers Property Australia, launched The Brickworks Living Building Challenge design competition. Based in Burwood East, Melbourne, it was Australia’s first Living Building Challenge design competition, and the first in the world that focused on a retail centre. We wanted to see designs for a Living Building in a retail environment – one that could be open to the general public, day in, day out. With the generosity of our progressive sponsors, and a star-studded panel of judges, we were able to make it happen.
The competition came to a conclusion in June 2016 after more than 40 organisations and 100 individuals contributed to many remarkable submissions, with awards for winning designs totaling over $30,000. The LFIA wishes to congratulate everyone who took on this ambitious competition, where anyone interested in a regenerative future from around the world were invited to submit ideas for this new retail centre – ideas that could dramatically raise the bar from a paradigm of doing ‘less harm’ to one in which we view our role as steward and co-creator of a true ‘living future’.
Summary posters of these incredible ideas can be viewed below. Click on an image to see the full poster:
dwp|suters – Rory Martin, Jess Hume, Joel Chamberlain, Eddie Page, Sacha Anderson, Andrew Carlson, Vaughan Lynch, Belinda McHarg, Scott Chapple, Georgie Vearvey, Joy McDonald, Emma Crumb, Andy Clements, Anh-Tu Le, Hayley Deng, Shanica Soenrak Hall Aurecon – Jeff Robinson, Ameet Ankaikar, Xu Zhou CJ Arms – Chris Arms, Vince Russo reedbed technology – Dr Peter Harbour Eco Harvest – Dr Robyn Overall Biomimicry Australia – Jane Toner Future Food – Francis Loughran, James Morton, Angelo Zucclet Watpac – Atena Malamiri, Sam Kuiper, Kate Hannaford
PEOPLE’S CHOICE & RUNNER UP: For the Common Good – A Restart to Retailing
Buchan Group – Dong Uong, Matthew Cosoleto, Harvey Male, Brendan Mongale, Aleksander Borek Grün Consulting – Clare Parry Inhabit – Darren O’Dea, Jessica Hogg Additional Contributors Rushwright Associates – Michael Write
THIRD PLACE COMMENDATION: The Gathering
KPA Architects – Todd Paterson, John Loreck, Marc Spadaccini, Jessica Radny, Penni Sutton Additional Contributors Link Engineering Consultants – Sven De Jonghe Ionic Design Australia – Tyron Mott REALMstudios – Damien Pericles Sustainability House – Nathan Lawry
Special Commendation (Professional)
Living Retail
NH Architecture– Fabian Jungbeck, Charles Zhang, Tom Nelson, Felicitiy Douglas, Wilko Doehring, Paul Evans, Wei Lun Sim, Robert Griffiths, Esther Slade, Tess O’Meara, Emily Aquilina, James Hayward, Laura Bailey, Amy Evans , Liam Oxlade Ark Resources – Mike rainbow, Jan Talacko ASPECT Studios – Warwick Savvas
E2Designlab – Emma James, Peter Breen
Additional Contributors
CERES – Beck Morley
MottMacDonald – John Bahoric
ASPECT Studios – Scott Gregory
