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MAIN STUDIO

Creative Practice based in Melbourne, Naarm. 

Design
Creative Direction
Closed-loop design consultation 
Education

We work and live on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land. 

UPCOMING

JANUARY 2024 BALI, INDONESIA
Green School Bali

APRIL 16 - 20 2024 MILAN, ITALY
Milan Design Week

MARCH 2024 NSW, AUSTRALIA
Closed loop home, Private client NSW

FOCUS

We partner with clients and stakeholders to realise interdisciplinary projects across design, furniture, art installation and film, exploring playful ideas and the role of design in bringing forth a better world.




CONTACT

BRONWEN MAIN
Creative Director & Co-Founder
bronwen@main-studio.com
FRANK BURRIDGE
Designer & Co-Founder
frank@main-studio.com

Shelly House



Precise interventions and small extensions transform this 1960s house into expansive and warm spaces. The design interventions celebrate the relaxed mid-century modernist lifestyle — an architecture that was always more about living than looking.









The removal of the front and rear fences is a small but radical act, softening the edge with the street and inviting wildlife to wander without barrier..
While many 50-year old houses are demolished for the convenience of a “fresh start”, the retention of 80% of the existing building fabric was a sensitive use of resources to add another 50+ years to the life of this building. Adaptive re-use is the greatest path toward reducing the climate impact of construction, avoiding the embodied emissions in new building products and the environmental impact of demolition and waste disposal.














The aim was to preserve the physical traces of memories attached to the building while updating the plan to stay relevant to an evolving family over three generations with the addition of a kids room and a bathroom, and a renovation of the kitchen, main bathroom and deck.