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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The brief for this modernist home, in leafy Doncaster, was to improve its energy efficiency, extend the existing home for the changing needs of the family, and to open internal living spaces to the outside.
