Nest Architects
Nest Architects is an architectural design practice based in Melbourne, Australia. Beginning in 2004, the practise was fully realised when Emilio Fuscaldo become registered with the Architects Registration Board of Victoria in November 2006.
The studio is committed to creating art and architecture that stems from first principles and ends at a place both the client and architect can be proud. Nest Architects does not have a discernable style. Instead it treats every project as a new exercise in finding the right balance between the opportunities of the site and the client’s brief, in very much the same way a bird would construct a stable nest according to its environment. Having said that, there are a few common themes appearing throughout the projects we work on. In particular, Nest strives for a home, workplace, bar, cafe, restaurant, or even a simple greenhouse, that gives the feeling of being both connected to the outside world and also cocooned from it.
Emilio Fuscaldo
Prior to establishing the design studio, Emilio completed an Arts Degree with Honours in Philosophy, his thesis focusing on the very current issue of Environmental Ethics, or simply put, what beliefs and aspirations should guide our decisions relating to how we treat the natural world. After undertaking part of his degree at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, he took the knowledge he gained from his Philosophy degree into the Architecture Faculty at the University of Melbourne.
After graduating he worked on a number of private projects whilst employed at Peck Von Hartel, Shane Williams Architects, Sinatra Murphy Landscape Studio, Perkins Architects and de Campo Architects. It was here that he learned the delicate art of dealing with clients, consultants and builders.
Awards and Competition Entries
June 1999
Flashpoint competition entry,
University of Sydney, NSW
December 2000
A Place for the People,
Canberra with Shane Williams
May 2004
Gippsland Educational Centre,
Department of Infrastructure Victoria
June 2004
Low Cost Housing,
Department of Infrastructure Victoria
March 2007
Shortlisted for "Illuminating Melbourne"
City of Melbourne
September 2007
Entry for Architecture Australia 2007
Prize for Unbuilt Work
Imogen Pullar
Imogen is an honours graduate from Melbourne University where she studied architecture and planning and design. She also studied in Denmark at the Royal Danish school of Fine Arts focusing on interior Architecture and furniture design. Imogen received a Dean Honours award as one of the top graduates from the Architecture Faculty. She also won first prize in a RAIA student ideas competition in 2006.
She has worked on large scale projects such as the Victorian Arts Centre Masterplan, Deakin University Central Precinct and the Law Institute of Victoria. On a smaller scale she has completed a number of private projects including a Beach house at Wye River, Polyester Record store fitout and Breathe Wellbeing yoga and pilates studio in Little Collins street which was featured in Monument Melbourne City guide.
Imogen is interested in user shaped spaces - using the challenges of ecology and energy and the changing ways in which we live to design stimulating and creative human environments that are capable of facing the future.
