Renovator Concepts, by Thurlow Studio Architects
The renovator concepts workshop is an architectural design service, offered by Thurlow Studio Architects. We’re registered architects in New South Wales. You’ll find our details below.
Thurlow
Studio
Architects
Thurlow Studio Pty. Ltd.
thurlowstudio.com
info@thurlowstudio.com
(02) 8006 8230
Level 5, Suite 51 / 61 Marlborough Street
Surry Hills, NSW 2010 Australia
Nominated Registered Architect | David Janson
ARB No: 9860 - NSW | 20487 - Victoria
ABN: 82 130 543 314
About Our Practice
Thurlow Studio is an architectural practice based in Surry Hills, NSW, owned and operated by Shane Marshall and David Janson.
The practice focuses on compact living environments, with a strong emphasis on sustainability. We believe that the most sustainable approach is often to
renovate and reuse existing structures wherever possible, which motivates our passionate interest in helping renovators deliver high quality projects.
We see renovators as a dispersed team of micro-developers, with an inherent lean towards a more sustainable way of delivering contemporary housing, in a
continually ageing market of housing stock. We believe that everyone deserves to live in a thoughtfully designed home, which drives us to offer cost effective renovation-specific services to renovators and first home buyers, and at the very least, to assist in providing the right conceptual direction at the beginning of a project.
David Janson
M.Arch, B.Des | ARB NSW no. 9860
With a passion for renovating and a love of hand-sketching, David leads most of our renovator concept workshops.
His project experience ranges from highly bespoke commercial and residential projects, to small scale kitchen and bathroom renovations; backed up by the successful renovation of his own apartment.
David held project architect and associate positions at the multi-award-winning Collins and Turner Architects, based in Surry Hills, where his project experience included high-end residential, childcare centres, and hospitality.
The Barangaroo House project which David delivered as project architect at Collins and Turner won several awards,
including the NSW institute of architects award for commercial architecture, the INDE award, for best social space, and the Australian Timber Design award for best facade.
David was 'born into renovating', with his mother being Bernadette Janson, the founder of The School of Renovating, which has afforded him the opportunity to assist with a multitude of renovation projects, big and small, as well as giving him a front-row seat in the mechanics of renovating.
David believes that the architectural concept design process, typically reserved for high-end, and highly bespoke projects, is relevant to every scale and budget, and he is intent on making it available to renovators through the work of Thurlow Studio.
Shane Marshall
M.Arch, B.Des | ARB NSW no. 10015
Shane leads all systems-focused, detail-oriented aspects of our design projects. His involvement in the renovator concepts workshop is usually in the background, but we lean on him where particularly challenging design questions present themselves.
Shane has spent the past 6 years at HASSELL architects, on their infrastructure design team, working predominantly on the Sydney Metro project, for which he was lead architect for the two above-ground train stations; Kellyville and Rouse Hill. The project recently received recognition at the NSW Institute of
Architects awards, receiving the Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Design, and commendation in the public architecture category.
Shane brings the first home buyers mindset to our renovator's projects; recently completing the renovation of his own apartment. He believes that the question of housing affordability has a lot to do with the largely outdated existing housing stock on the market. He believes that supporting first home buyers in converting uninspiring and dated apartments into their dream home is a fundamental piece to the housing affordability puzzle.
