At Bawtree Design, we work across Sydney, designing highly refined homes with an emphasis on beautifully flowing spaces, natural light and sustainability.

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Our Approach

Our approach to designing your home draws on leading design principles and decades of experience.

Biophilic design

As biophilic architects, we incorporate natural elements including plants, water, sunlight, organic forms and materials to create closer connections to nature within the spaces we design. This promotes physical and psychological wellbeing and reduces stress for the occupants.

Sustainable architecture

We design your home using passive solar principles to help you to reduce your carbon footprint and the need for air conditioning and lighting. We specify robust, locally made and sustainable materials which go beyond the minimum BASIX and NatHERS requirements, to ensure your home is comfortable and cost efficient to live in.

International perspectives

We draw on our international experience to apply geomantic design concepts such as Feng Shui and Japanese simplicity to an Australian context.

Strong connections

As an established Sydney architecture practice, we can connect you with some of Sydney’s most respected builders, trades, suppliers, and consultants.

Our Process

For a cohesive and well resolved outcome, we deliver your entire home from concept to completion.

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  • We assess your brief, site qualities, and constraints, commission a survey, engage any necessary consultants, and sketch initial design concepts.

  • Building on the concept design, we prepare more detailed floor plans, sec­tions, ele­va­tions and explore options in the 3D mod­el. We propose mate­ri­als and fin­ish­es and seek cost estimates from a QS or trusted builder. If required, we review the design with Council at a Pre-Devel­op­ment Appli­ca­tion (DA) meet­ing.

  • Once the design is locked in, we coordinate the consultants and engineers drawings and refine the building cost before lodgement. We then help you navigate the Development Application or Complying Development submission and approval process and respond to queries from Council or Private Certifier during the assessment period.

  • We pre­pare con­struc­tion doc­u­men­ts includ­ing plans, sec­tions, ele­va­tions and detail draw­ings. We work with you to select and specify fix­tures, fit­tings, mate­ri­als and fin­ish­es to create the look and feel of your home. We coor­di­nate the struc­tur­al & stormwater engi­neer­ing and other con­sul­tant draw­ings required to ensure the tender prices are as accurate as possible.

  • We tender your project to a panel of vetted builders, ensuring a fair and transparent selection process or we can work with a selected trusted builder from the beginning. We then work with your Private Certifier to pre­pare and issue all the nec­es­sary infor­ma­tion required for the Con­struc­tion Cer­tifi­cate or CDC - the for­mal approval to con­struct the build­ing. We ensure the contract set is updated so that building can commence.

  • We act as your rep­re­sen­ta­tive to ensure the con­struc­tion process runs smoothly by respond­ing to builder queries, attend­ing and minut­ing reg­u­lar site meet­ings, assess­ing progress claims and vari­a­tions and autho­ris­ing pay­ments to the builder. When near­ing con­struc­tion com­ple­tion, we pre­pare defects lists and assist in com­pil­ing all the nec­es­sary cer­tifi­cates for the issue of the occu­pa­tion cer­tifi­cate.

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