A SeriArch house is built around shade, cross-breeze and the long verandah — the subtropical habits that make a Queensland home comfortable without switching anything on

A house in Brisbane spends eight months of the year trying to stay cool. That single fact shapes almost everything we draw: where the roof overhangs, how high the floor sits, which walls you can open completely and which ones hold the western sun off the living space.

We start every project on site, usually early in the morning, watching where the light lands and where the air moves. The plan comes out of that. Orientation, ceiling heights, the position of a single window — these decide whether a room is pleasant in February, and no amount of finish selection fixes them later.

We work directly with the people who will live in the house, and with the builder from early on. Drawings a builder can read and price are part of the design, not a stage that happens after it.

The result is recognisably ours without being a formula. Each house answers its own street, its own slope, its own family — but the underlying logic is consistent, and it holds up in the heat.