Byron Bourke is a building designer specialising in the design of ecologically sensitive systems of living and avant-garde low impact housing. After working for some of Australia's leading architecture practices Byron went on to complete a Master of Architecture at The University of Sydney where he was awarded the 2018 Advanced Fabrication Prize (KUKA Robotics). Byron holds a bachelors degree in Urban and Regional Planning as well as qualifications in 3D Animation (AFTRS) and Visual FX (Metroscreen). Byron relates his animation background to architecture in an ethereal sense that a building's life is somewhat like a living creature and that the creation of buildings should be from a locus of functional beauty, a life force and symbiosis between material relationship/arrangement, working shapes and world environment - ''to me the micro architecture is akin to something which is alive - a small intricate building can take on a sense of individual character in its response to a set of individual conditions. It feels unique when the pragmatic or natural relationship to the site's story and (natural and urban) systems drives a high-ordered tectonic beyond merely building - That's when you know a construction idea is working, when there starts to form an individual identity in it's arrangement of materials, a poetic narrative emerges in the (architectural) idea which is gleaned from the site and specific to a surrounding land / time-scape and place.''
