Mark accepting an Australia Day 2021 Award for his approx 30 years contribution to the betterment of Byron Shire, including:

ARCHITECTURE

Design of some local infrastructure, including the Byron Bay Youth Activities Centre, the restoration of the railway workers cottage and transformation to the Byron Bay Tourist Information Centre, amenities at the Cape Byron Lighthouse,

Various social housing complexes and affordable housing.

Pro-bono work including for an animal refuge.

Various iconic buildings and/or well designed projects throughout the shire.

EDUCATION

An invited year lecturer in design at the local TAFE.

Guidance lecture to Byron High School students on a career in architecture.

VOLUNTEERING

Aprox 10 years helping at homeless/low income kitchen by coordinating and collecting and distributing donations (including throughout the covid-19 pandemic).

SPORT

Starting a table tennis sports club approx 20 years ago for all ages and continuing to coordinate.

Representing Byron Bay in that sport throughout Australia with some wins.

    

Renovation of tenement in Ballina

We have been undertaking the renovation of a previously un-loved tenement in Ballina on the Far North Coast of NSW.  It includes the conversion of four small flats into one house for the owners including a studio and two units and landscaping.

We provided a private sense of entry into each refurbished home.  The latest stage is demolition of the rusty backyard shed and replacement with a studio and garage.  The design incorporates solar power, solar vents, solar & gas hot water, optimal aspect, cross ventilation, rain water collection and use. 

Demolished materials have been re-purposed: for example hardwood wall studs have become laminated supports for the bathtub and some fittings from the past are incorporated.

Individual entry porches. 

Posts for the new porch entries.

Latest addition is a roof over the deck link between 

main house and the studio.

 

Overseas - Middle East

Awaiting Government approval.

 

 

 

 

 

Construction of a house 2011

                                        site evaluation

                                        the site

                                        ground floor plan

                                          first floor plan

                                           ground floor set-out

                                          elevations

                                         section

                                          landscape plan

                                                  setting out

                                                  foundations

                                                  floor framing

                                        wall framing

                                                  roofing

                                         wall cladding

                                              linings

                                         external colour scheme

                                              ensuite and robe detail

                                                  kitchen

                                          kitchen colour scheme

                                          internal paint colour scheme

                                        lighting

                                         vinyl and tile scheme

                                            tile layout