Studio Bright is a Melbourne-based architecture practice, formerly known as MAKE Architecture, that specializes in creating enduring and responsive buildings rooted in craft and context. Guided by a collaborative studio culture and a belief in design’s social purpose, the firm engages with a broad range of project types—including residential, educational, public, and multi-residential—always seeking to enrich urban and communal life through thoughtful spatial solutions.
Their work is characterized by finely considered detail and an optimistic approach to designing places for people and communities. Notable projects include the award-winning Hedge and Arbour House, St. Mary’s Coptic Church, and the Mansard House—each demonstrating the firm’s commitment to clarity, atmosphere, and the forging of deeper connections between architecture and its surroundings.
LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia
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Autumn House, a striking project designed by Studio Bright in Wurundjeri Country, is an extension of a Victorian terrace home that incorporates a 1980s renovation by architect Mick Jörgensen and gracefully integrates a mature elm tree in…
A new house for a large family located on a double-fronted site in North Fitzroy with heritage overlay reflects Studio Bright’s ongoing desire to make adaptable family houses that connect as much as possible with the outdoors.
A prominent, corner sited Edwardian on the crest of Ruckers Hill, has been restored and enlarged with new living spaces in a separate rear-garden pavilion. Pushing the new addition to the back of this site allows a…
Amado are external sliding timber screens used on Japanese traditional houses to protect the inner layers of shoji screens from the weather. The Amado House adapts sliding screens to address Australian conditions, moderating harsh sun and discouraging…
This is a rear extension to a single-storey cottage in Brunswick with difficult orientation characteristics – the north sun only reaching the site from over adjoining houses. The new addition pulls living areas to the rear of…
In a lively, active industrial precinct the form of this house can be understood as a perimeter condition; an expanded edge that sits hard up against the site boundary and in doing so, wraps and encloses the…
This house is a project MAKE Architecture, located in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The house has a Californian bungalow style architecture, is connected to the environment and encourages communication and socialization.
Rosebank House project was realized by Make Architecture and it involved the spatial extension and renovation of an Edwardian house in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Harnessing the free land, there were built new living spaces,…
Located in Northcote, a suburb of Melbourne, M House is situated on a south-facing plot. The primary challenge was to introduce northern light into the new living areas. The addition was designed to be minimally invasive, preserving…
