PHILIP OLDFIELD To start, could you briefly talk about your practice, where it came from and how it evolved?
CLARE KENNEDY Five Mile Radius is about seven years old now. We started as a group of architects who just wanted to get on the tools, but we were also very interested in where materials were coming from. We’re different from a traditional architecture practice because we are 50 percent architecture and 50 percent making. So, half the team is working more on design-based projects and half the team is in our workshop. But the two work very fluidly, hand-in-hand, which is kind of fortuitous when it comes to testing ideas about material sustainability, because we can actually just test things out ourselves.
We’re working on what are some larger projects, for us, at the moment. One’s a pub on the Sunshine Coast and it’s got a really intense time frame and budget. And that’s meant that we’ve had to really test out some of
