Contemporary Residential Architects Melbourne

Contemporary architecture, as this practice draws it, is not a style pasted onto a plan; it is design honest about its own time. Materials chosen for performance and expression at once, plans shaped by how households live now, and sustainability built into the physics rather than the brochure. Our Zeus project put it in one building: a curved-metal home wrapped around a professional workspace, because that is how its owners actually live.

THE PRACTICE

Barbara Yerondais FRAIA, registered architect, sits at the head of a 35+-year, 400+-project Victorian practice, with a consultative team model that brings quantity surveyors and structural engineers in early, where they save money instead of late, where they cost it.

35+

YEARS

400+

PROJECTS

59+

HERITAGE APPROVALS

THE STANCE

Contemporary,
without the dogma

The practice designs sustainable buildings and declines the scoreboard race: mixed-mode comfort with windows that open, insulation, orientation and thermal mass doing quiet work, old fabric allowed to breathe where renovation meets new. Performance you feel and pay less to run, ahead of certificates you frame.

THE PROCESS

From first sketch
to keys

Feasibility reads the site and the budget together; concept design happens with Barbara sketching in the room; design development and documentation make it buildable, approvable and tenderable; and the practice stays accountable through construction. Fees are fixed at engagement. Where a heritage overlay touches the project, it runs through the practice's deepest lane, 59+ approvals, rather than around it.

THE FIT

Who this page
is for

New homes and substantial contemporary transformations, typically from around $1 million of construction for whole-home work, with renovations in our delivered range from approximately $250,000–$570,000. Portfolio examples rather than quotes: your project gets its own number at feasibility, and if a simpler pathway serves you better, that gets said in the first meeting.

A contemporary home in mind, new or transformed?

Book a feasibility session and see it sketched against your actual block.

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COMMON QUESTIONS

Contemporary design questions,
answered honestly

What makes a home "contemporary" beyond looks?

The plan and the physics: open where family life wants it, private where it does not, engineered for comfort and running costs. Style follows; our Zeus project's curved metal came from its brief, not a mood board.

Do you mix contemporary design with older homes?

Constantly, it is half the practice: bold contemporary additions behind period fabric, each true to its own era. See our extension and heritage pages for the delivered record.

START THE CONVERSATION

The first step
never changes

A full one-hour feasibility session with Barbara, concept yours to keep, no obligation. Design and approvals run months ahead of any build; a contemporary home wanted for next year starts its drawings now.

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Every project begins with a deep inquiry into site, heritage, and vision. Let’s discuss the strategic potential of your next work.

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A PRELIMINARY CONSULTATION TO EVALUATE HERITAGE CONSTRAINTS, SITE POTENTIAL, AND PROJECT FEASIBILITY.