This session explores how stair pressurisation systems—while often treated as purely technical—have a direct influence on architectural planning, spatial efficiency, and occupant life safety.
The Australian Apartment Advocacy (AAA) conducts research every two years to ascertain owners views about their apartments and what they love, would change and also buy next.
This session introduces architects to sensory design through a psychological and neuroscientific lens. It frames architectural practice as an active participant in regulating perception, attention, behaviour, meaning, wellbeing and health—mental health in particular. The session equips participants with a nascent theoretical, yet practical conceptual framework for design.
Unleash your creativity with Super Studio 2026, a national conceptual design challenge for all SONA members across all year levels! This is your opportunity to design without limitations, pushing boundaries […]
Project Circle outlines a new framework for design and construction, foregrounding material choices as the key question for the coming years.
The built environment is increasingly shifting from a focus on “less harm” toward regenerative design - where buildings actively contribute to the health of people, ecosystems, and material cycles. This is the second in a three-part Lean In series focused on assessing sustainable materials and embedding regenerative design as part of projects and in everyday […]
A practical finance primer for architects: learn how practices set charge rates, forecast revenue, monitor utilisation and margin, manage forecast‑to‑complete, and strengthen invoicing/payment terms — so projects (and careers) can grow sustainably.
