Projects
These are some of the projects that have shaped how I think and work — each one taught me something I couldn't have learned any other way.
In 2024, I co-founded Living Systems Development to do something I'd been thinking about for years — showcase ways that the built environment can support thriving communities and ecologies. Peachgrove East is a 48-unit net-zero Passive House cohousing community in Hamilton, New Zealand. It's our first project, and it's teaching us everything.
Learn more →Toa Homes started as a question: what would it look like to develop genuinely affordable, sustainable housing in partnership with iwi? Co-founded with Ngāti Toa, this joint venture spent three years refining a Passive House housing delivery approach. The work was as much about relationships and governance as it was about building science.
Learn more →From 2022 to 2025, I provided project leadership and staff mentorship for Edge Impact's built environment team across a series of complex projects during a period of significant organisational restructure. The work required holding technical depth and human complexity at the same time.
Learn more →In 2021, James Bushell and I led a series of conversations exploring the roots of Aotearoa's housing crisis. Rather than proposing another policy fix, the How We Live report advocated for a fundamentally more adaptive response — one that recognises the crisis as complex rather than merely complicated.
Learn more →Working closely with Orogen, Toa Architects and the Ngāti Toa property team, I supported the Iwi's bid as part of the Government's Infrastructure Acceleration Fund. Keneperu Landing was subsequently the first project awarded funding under the scheme.
Learn more →Throughout 2021, I worked with GHD, Mott MacDonald and others to develop a joint response to support Yarra Valley Water's engineering delivery. My role involved running training with the entire engineering team and supporting project governance to enable more place-based, regenerative outcomes.