Practice Description
Bellemo & Cat is a multi-disciplinary Architectural team established in 1998, working in Urban Design, Architecture and Public Art. We fuse our endeavours in art and architecture to design for people, planet and place simultaneously. Like busy ants we carry the experimentation from the twisting of a sculpture to the construction of a school to find the balance between the poetic and the pragmatic, allowing neither element to dominate creates the elastic space in which we work best.
Based in the inner north of Naarm Melbourne Bellemo & Cat have wide International and local recognition for projects that are both climate active and adventurous, that speak globally from a local understanding. The firm’s aim is to create buildings and spaces that nurture the users and respect the nature of every place they build upon.
Sustainability Statement
Personal Responsibility, Sustainable choices:
We are active members of the climate movement and realise the latent potential for positive change that could be brought about by responsible engagement and agency within the built environment.
Beyond operating a low impact, low energy office workspace and taking personal action to reduce our carbon footprint we are involved in many climate action groups and non-Government organisations.
The integration of our engagement with local environmental campaigns and our Architectural profession drove us to organise a National Forum on Timber Use in the Architectural Industry. This initiative, held in partnership with the Sustainable Living Festival, Australian Architects Declare, and the Australian Institute of Architects, grew from our forest conservation work with various NGOs
Throughout our years of practice we have learnt to carefully consider every aspect of the work we undertake and to acknowledge that every action has an impact, every nail, every plank of wood comes from our beautiful finite planet and we take care that it is all used thoughtfully and purposefully.
This leads us to carefully and consistently consider all materials used and all building technologies employed to craft spaces that nurture the user without burdening nature.
