{DESIGN BRIEF 02} - Wotjobaluk Cultural Design Brief, 2025


A Cultural Design Brief co-designed with the Wotjobaluk First-Nations community to support and guide the Wimmera Healing Place project. Produced in collaboration with Goolum Goolim Aboriginal Cooperative.  








{HOUSING 02} - Wimmera Healing Place, 2026


A social housing project in regional Victoria, developed through a co-design framework in collaboration with local Elders, custodians and community members..







{HOUSE ADDITION 01} - Room in Hawthorn, 2024

A small addition to a house in Hawthorn, Melbourne, fitting the new space within the tight gap between existing housing units.




{SITE RENEWAL STRATEGY 01} - Nyagaroon, Cathedral Ranges 2023


A landscape renewal plan and community centre for traditional owner land council in north-eastern Victoria.




{FILM 01} - Before Building, 2026

A social housing project in regional Victoria, developed through a co-design framework in collaboration with local Elders, custodians and community members.




{COMMUNITY CENTRE 01} - Cathedral Ranges, 2023

A landscape renewal plan and community centre for traditional owner land council in north-eastern Victoria.






{HOUSE RETROFIT 01} - House in Warrnambool, 2026

A social housing project in regional Victoria, developed through a co-design framework in collaboration with local Elders, custodians and community members


{HOUSE 02} - House in Seddon, 2015

A multi-generational house in Seddon, Melbourne.





{DESIGN BRIEF 01} - Cultural Design Brief, 2023


A Cultural Design Brief co-designed with the Gunditjmara community to support and guide the Wimmera South-West Healing partnership and projects. 





{RESEARCH INSTITUTE 01} - Ecological Research Intitute, 2021

An Environmental Education Centre located at the crux of wet and dry landscapes in Western Australia.






{DESIGN BRIEF 04} - Hamilton Major Projects Design Brief, 2026


A Cultural Design Brief co-designed with the Wotjobaluk First-Nations community to support and guide the Wimmera Healing Place project. Produced in collaboration with Goolum Goolim Aboriginal Cooperative. 






{SITE RENEWAL STRATEGY 01 } - Nyagaroon, 2023

A landscape renewal plan and community centre for traditional owner land council in north-eastern Victoria.




{HOUSE 03} - South Coast House, Ongoing


A house sited on a headland in southern NSW. The interior spaces are orientated to the views across the Pacific ocean, and the landscape design blends private garden spaces with a public headland pathway. 



{HOUSE 01} - House in Woodend

A house with 2 wings, the building opens up to its north orientation and views across a rural valley.  Thick thermal mass walls to its south and west faces ensure the house feels grounded and performs well in its cold climate setting.




{EXHIBITION 01} - baanytaageek: Great Swamp Fragments

With S-I Projects, we have collaborated with Monash Urban Lab and N’arweet Carolyn Briggs to design the exhibition space for  baanytaageek - Great Swamp Fragments at MUMA Museum.





























Contact:
ben@watersarchitects.com
@benwatersarchitects
+61 (0) 3 4527 4413


Office Locations:
Warrnambool, South West Victoria, Gunditjmara Country
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Parkville, Melbourne / Naarm
Acknowledgement:  
We acknowledge that we work on the lands of the Gunditjmara and Wurundjeri people who have been custodians of this land for thousands of years, and acknowledge and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
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