Steffen Welsch Architects is a Melbourne-based architecture practice known for its custom single-residential and small-scale community projects with a strong emphasis on sustainability and passive solar design. The firm blends modernist clarity, material warmth, and environmental performance to produce homes that are both beautiful and functional.
Their work spans residential renovations, new builds, aged care, childcare and community projects, designed to engage both site and climate while enhancing local context. Projects such as Life Cycle, The Weatherboard Extension, and Feng Shui House illustrate the studio’s commitment to low-carbon materials, open plan living, and designing homes that perform well in both winter and summer.
LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia
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Subtle Shifts Home by Steffen Welsch Architects demonstrates that bigger isn’t always better. Instead of prioritizing size, the project proves that thoughtful design can achieve sustainability, flexibility, and comfort within an existing footprint.
The Life Cycle House by Steffen Welsch Architects is a thoughtful extension to a modest weatherboard home situated in a quiet suburban street. This project is not just an addition; it’s a carefully considered organism that blends…
When I took my son to see the house in the midst of its completion, through his eyes, it unfolded as an endless structure, ‘a house that never ended’ – in his young mind, it appeared as…
This Californian Bungalow Family Home aims to reduce operational energy through passive solar and services and minimise embodied energy through compactness and choice of materials.
Beach Slice House is a holiday home an hour’s drive from Melbourne, and a five-minute walk to the shore of Western Port Bay. Sitting on a bush block, it is humble and relaxed, designed to holiday. A…
These three homes are economical and sensible. We applied attention to practicalities, and created internal vistas and varied open space to design homes that are functional, spacious, and bright – without adding unnecessary floor space and cost.…
Located in Melbourne’s inner-city opposite a suburban train station this is a re-assembly of an old dilapidated factory building to become a home with studios for an artist and musician.
This design for a rammed earth extension to a Californian Bungalow goes back to personal key experiences of places. However, I was less interested in a building itself but the interaction it generated and asked why. That…
Hemp House, a dual occupancy home for three generations to explore co-housing, was built in a combination of rammed earth, timber and Hempcrete walls. It created a very beautiful and healthy environment
