Angus Irons — Portfolio

Extensive alterations and additions to four-storey residential property executed under concurrent CDC and DA approvals. Led design development and client collaboration, managed competitive tender with 4 builders, and administered dual building contracts across multiple stages. Conducted fortnightly site visits and on-site coordination with structural engineer and builder.

Key Accomplishments

• Managed accelerated project delivery by navigating dual concurrent approval pathways with distinct timelines, compressing overall project schedule.
• Synthesized client aspirations with practical constraints during comprehensive brief development and refinement from project inception.
• Championed one of the practice's marquee commissions as design lead, establishing quality benchmarks and client confidence across all design and delivery phases.
• Achieved professional registration mid-project and immediately applied hands-on contract administration and approvals management on-site.

Renovation of inner-city terrace with flexible living and dining spaces for growing family. Led design development within tight building constraints, facilitated competitive tendering process, and administered building contract alongside director. Managed on-site contract administration, progress claims, and client budgets throughout construction.

Key Accomplishments

• Operated autonomously across client relations and financial forecasting, building confidence through transparent budget management and proactive communication.
• Coordinated a rigorous competitive tender across fully detailed and specified documentation, evaluating builder proposals and negotiating commercial terms independently.

Comprehensive alterations and additions to multi-storey residential dwelling with evolving brief requirements under cost-plus contract. Led on-site project management for overseas clients, navigating constantly evolving scope and latent site conditions. Managed contract administration and progress claims with builder conducting fortnightly site meetings.

Key Accomplishments

• Navigated the complexities of cost-plus delivery, documenting design evolution in real-time while maintaining technical rigor as brief requirements shifted.
• Cultivated direct relationships with principal certifier on compliance pathways, serving as bridge between design intent and regulatory approval.
• Took ownership of detailed specification and procurement of fixtures, fittings, and finishes, ensuring client preferences were realised across all project elements despite geographic distance.

A proposal for a shared community fostering growth and wellbeing through the study of inside, outside, and interstitial space. The scheme reactivates Moss Vale Road as a new pedestrian main street running from Cambewarra to Bomaderry station, encouraging foot and bike traffic as a means of community building.

At its centre, a community sports ground and civic square stage public congregation, with surrounding residential settings given direct access to the amenity. The housing is organised around five spatial orders of respite — from the personal interior to the communal exterior — letting each occupant dictate the balance of shared space and seclusion.

Sydney's fire station carries an architecture of practicality and security, shaped largely by its program — including an intricate system of external louvres across the facade. This physical model is a 1:5 exploration of that concept: a re-articulation of the operable louvre structure that integrates visual cues from the form of a fire truck.

The model investigates the tactility of materials and the operability of built structure, testing how a façade can move and respond rather than remain fixed.