Andrew Maynard

Styx Valley Protest Shelter - The Styx Valley Forest is a pristine wilderness in south western Tasmania. It is home to the tallest hardwood trees in the world averaging over 80 metres. It is a unique ecosystem unlike any other. Many of the trees are over 400 years old. In 1996 only around 13% of these trees remain. A large area of south western Tasmania's pristine wilderness is world heritage and is therefore protected. Unfortunately the Styx Valley falls just outside the South West National Park and it is now under attack from logging companies. More info at http://www.andrewmaynard.com.au/styx01.html

Sproule House - HIGHLY COMMENDED Australian Timber Design Awards 2004. Visit http://www.andrewmaynard.com.au/sproule01.html for more.

Holl house - It is a reality that most buildings [and the vast majority of architects] do not respond well to the condition of TIME. Buildings are designed at a specific point in time for a specific purpose. Once the building process has come to an end the building simply ages as time passes, rather than adapting. The building begins to become irrelevant as the needs of its users and as technology changes. The typical response to this condition is to refit or part or wholly demolish. Buildings, too often, are static representations of a fixed point of time constrained to a linear understanding and chronology. Architecture is so static that there exists the threat of irrelevance beyond the creation of shells to house truly responsive designs. The house of multiple dimensions represents a search for a space that is adaptable to the whim of its user, a space that does not simply contain elements of one's life but a space that recognises and allows for change. Visit http://www.andrewmaynard.com.au/holl01.html for more.

KMSS - Kings Meadows Self Storage provided an opportunity for Andrew Maynard to explore, what he describes as “architecture of the mundane”. Architects must take responsability for the suburbs and address the many and varied challenges [problems that] the suburbs create. The KMSS project has allowed Andrew Maynard to enter into part of the suburban ideology to explore and comment. Visit http://www.andrewmaynard.com.au/prm01.html for more info.

Prefab house - For housing to be affordable now and in the future there is a dire need for the building industry to catch up with the processes used in the production of electrical goods and cars. If the car industry functioned as the building industry does we would have roads full of very different vehicles. All cars would be built simplistically and crudely at a very high price and would be affordable to few. The vicurban house design is a cheap production line, prefabrication system for affordable housing for all. Visit http://www.andrewmaynard.com.au/vicurban01.html for more info.