^ Our amazing home - The Foundry Studios in Red Hill, Brisbane (a brass foundry built in the 1880's).
What is Five Mile Radius?
Five Mile Radius is a Brisbane based Architecture studio. We design using Australian construction materials, while at the same time researching their potential and sharing our findings with others along the way. Our mission is to help bring environmental design using locally sourced materials to the construction mainstream.
We are Australia's only Architecture studio focused on the use of local resources in design. Our motto - Build With What You've Got.
Check out our Website here.
The Five Mile School
Over the past three years, alongside our design work, Five Mile Radius has hosted many workshops, lectures and events - all from our home at The Foundry Studios in Red Hill, Brisbane. We have grown a cult following - particularly among young designers passionate about the future of our planet and its resources. These educational activities are a core component of what we do.
Later this year we will open the Five Mile School - a school for sustainable material research and design. Expect more workshops, more student involvement, more industry partners and more vital materials research.
What are we funding?
We are currently seeking corporate sponsors to aid in funding the renovation of our workspace in Red Hill to incorporate the Five Mile School. We are looking for industry partners that support our efforts, and want to get behind this unique Brisbane initiative. Your sponsorship will help to establish the basis from which we grow our organisation and broaden our impact.
We aim to create an improved co-working space, an event forum and a materials workshop - all accessible to the wider design community. With support from local tradespeople we have already secured a library of recycled materials for the build, and the necessary permits and permissions are in place. After finalising our design the build itself is to be an educational exercise. We will be hosting formalised winter internships for young designers - teaching timber work, furniture making and landscaping.
The new Five Mile Headquarters will be built by the community, for the community - with the support of Brisbane's design industry.
Your sponsorship will help to:-
- Create an event forum incorporating landscaped flooring, retaining walls and seating:
- Create a workshop with the basic tools and equipment required:
- Enlarge our co-working space, and add 2 hot desks for visiting outside collaborators:
- Create a communal kitchen:
- Incorporate regulation Occupational Health & Safety standards to provide a safe working environment.
Our team
Five Mile Radius is directed by registered architect Clare Kennedy. She is ably supported by architect Tom O’Shea and emerging designers - Marilena Hewitt, Hunter Eccleston, Acacia Stevenson, Steve Szell and Max O’Brien. Alongside our core team we've grown a community of makers, thinkers, academics and artists that support what we do and assist where they can.
We are a valued member of the Brisbane design community with previous collaborative partners including the Brisbane City Council, Urban Arts Projects, Regional Arts Development Fund and Jungle Love Festival.
What to find out more?
If you have any questions or would like a chat, please get in touch!
- Email [email protected]
- Visit our website
- Follow us on instagram
- Visit our youtube
^ The Five Mile Team
.^ Layout for the new school^ Poster for winter interns
^ Site for new Materials Workshop.^ Site for new Events Forum.