We, as the Designer Interviews ("DI") had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to interview award-winning, most creative and innovative Stuart Threadgold ("ST").
Stuart Threadgold is an award-winning designer that helps make the World a better place with their original and innovative creations and advanced design works.
Stuart Threadgold Designs
We are pleased to share with you original and innovative design work by Stuart Threadgold.
Designer Interview of Stuart Threadgold:
DI: Could you please tell us more about your art and design background? What made you become an artist/designer? Have you always wanted to be a designer?
ST : Architect Stuart Threadgold graduated from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Architecture) and Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) in 1995 which is now Masters of Architecture. Prior to establishment of threadgold architecture + construction extensive experience was gained at award winning architectural offices; including Overman Zuideveld (now trading as Zuideveld Marchant Hur Architects and Neil Cownie Architect), Design Inc, Banhams Architects, Griffiths Architects et al. With over thirty years in the construction industry, the practice has delivered successful building outcomes across all buildings classes, including; upmarket individual homes, multi-residential developments, mixed-use developments, community and medical centers, shopping centers, offices and retail developments and hotels.
DI: Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
ST : Threadgold Architecture is a boutique architectural practice established in 2008 with offices in Western Australian and Texas offering clients a personal and holistic design and construction service. The architectural practice has a small team of skilled and dedicated professionals and strives to deliver a high level of professional service. The architectural practice esteems excellence and seeks to deliver innovative building designs that are functional, spatially distinct, memorable and cost effective.
DI: What kinds of works do you like designing most?
ST : The practice delights in architectural design of mixed-use developments for inner city and urban areas where adaption and reinterpretation of existing buildings can be incorporated into the architectural brief.
DI: What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
ST : The Yallingup House Design is an architectural design that the practice delighted as an off-grid house for a 120 acre farm in the Yallingup hills. This Yallingup House embodied the clients’ ideal to live sustainably and off-grid with the brief demanding the Yallingup architect Threadgold Architecture to create a power self-sufficient house design and incorporating passive solar design principles to reduce energy consumption. This Yallingup House Design optimizes environmentally sustainable design and passive solar design principles by being sited at elevation for cooling breezes and is surrounded by citrus, nut and pomme fruit orchards set out to permaculture principles as part of the design brief received by architect Threadgold Architecture. It achieves passive solar design principles through a generous allocation of north facing glazing and end folding glass doors and highlight glass louvres for stack effect ventilation. During summer, the owners of the Yallingup House open the Breezeway glass louvres to the underside of roof eaves on the northern elevation to generate cross ventilation and cool the kitchen, living and dining areas. Throughout the colder days of a south west winter, the owners close the operable windows and louvres to enjoy direct sunlight across 85% of the living floor space. The Yallingup architect specified a honed concrete floor to the Yallingup House Design to maximise passive solar design by capturing the radiant heat from the direct sunlight during the daylight hours and releasing the heat through cooler south-west evenings into the Yallingup House. The design incorporated photovoltaic panels for energy generation behind the single lock standing seam anthra zinc clad parapetd. The Yallingup House Design sustainable design credentials were further endorsed through rainwater harvesting and a potable water storage capacity of 550 kilolitres and a 440 litre Solarhart solar hot water system boosted by the Chazelle Chimneys wood fire box. The Yallingup architect reduced the embodied energy by utilising local jarrah and sheoak hard wood species with a high natural resistance to white ants. Yallingup architect‘s brief for the project included an edible landscape surrounding the house comprising of dwarf coffee trees, feijoa, papaya, pineapple and tamarillo trees to permaculture principles.