Ben Waters  
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Housing 02Wimmera Healing Place    2025-77 A social housing project in regional Victoria, developed through a co-design framework in collaboration with local Elders, custodians and community members. 


HOUSING 02







DESIGN BRIEF 03








HOUSE RETROFIT 01     


    





FILM 01    








PUBLICATION 02









DESIGN BRIEF 02








HOUSE ADDITION 01







PUBLICATION 01






EXHIBITION 01






HOUSING 01






DESIGN BRIEF 01






COMMUNITY CENTRE 01





CABIN 01






STORE 01







WIMMERA HEALING PLACE







HAMILTON MAJOR PROJECTS - DESIGN BRIEF







HOUSE IN WARRNAMBOOL








BEFORE BUILDING 









BEFORE BUILDING








WOTJOBALUK CULTURAL BRIEF








ROOM IN HAWTHORN







BAANYTAAGEEK, GREAT SWAMP FRAGMENTS





BAANYTAAGEEK, GREAT SWAMP FRAGMENTS





TOOKATARRWATOOK HEALING PLACE





GUNDITJMARA CULTURAL BRIEF





NYAGAROON





CABIN FOR A COASTAL GARDEN





ALPHA60 NEWTOWN
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A social housing project in regional Victoria, developed through a co-design framework in collaboration with local Elders, custodians and community members. 





A Cultural Design Brief co-designed with the Gunditjmara community to support and guide the Hamilton Major Projects - New Hamiltion Gallery, Library and Streetscapes.





An ongoing retrofit to an existing post-war house in regional South-West Victoria. The project involves small changes to the layout of the house to better connect to its garden, and support young family life.  







Before Building is an ongoing design research project in collaboration with Architecture Associates, examining the role of dialogue in architectural design. 






A short publication to introduce Before Building - an ongoing design research project in collaboration with Architecture Associates, examining the role of dialogue in architectural design. 







































Wimmera Healing Place










{HEALING PLACE 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 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. 






{Cabin 01} - Lightweight Cabin in Coastal Victoria, 2024


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





{PUBLICATION 01} - baanytaageek, Great Swamp Fragments, 2023


With S-I Projects, we have contributed to the baanytaageek - Great Swamp Fragments publication as a part of the exhibition held at MUMA Museum in 2023.  




{FILM 01} - Before Building - Dialogue in Collective Design Practice, 2026

Before Building is an ongoing design research project in collaboration with Architecture Associates, examining the role of dialogue in architectural design.






{RESEARCH INSTITUTE 01} - Ecological Research Institute, 2021


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






{HOUSE ADDITION 01} - Room in Hawthorn, 2025


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.




{PUBLICATION 01} - baanytaageek, Great Swamp Fragments, 2023


With S-I Projects, we have contributed to the baanytaageek - Great Swamp Fragments publication as a part of the exhibition held at MUMA Museum in 2023. 


{STORE 01} - Alpha60, Newtown, 2021

We assisted Alpha60 in the refurbishment and interior fit for its flagship store in Newtown.













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Warrnambool, South West Victoria, Gunditjmara Country
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Parkville, Naarm, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country







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.