A working studio lot, designed from the ground up.
We were engaged to develop a conceptual master plan for a purpose-built film and screen production facility in regional Australia. The brief called for a secure, multi-studio campus with capacity for soundstages, production offices, post-production suites, workshops, screening facilities and a creative hub for a range of tenants. Two options were tested - a compact two-studio configuration and a larger four-studio layout - both designed to demonstrate how a facility of this scale and complexity could sit on a single parcel of cleared, flat land with multiple access points.
The master plan organised the campus around a central courtyard with seating and tree canopy, separating secure production zones from publicly accessible areas and tenant spaces. Separate gated entries for professional and public access, dedicated truck and vehicle parking, golf cart charging, and a secure perimeter addressed the operational realities of a working studio lot. Solar arrays on the soundstage roofs and on-site battery storage were integrated from the outset, and a landscape buffer of trees along the site boundary provided screening and amenity. The work was delivered as a feasibility-stage illustration - designed to be visually compelling and spatially credible, giving our client the material they needed to test the proposition with government and industry stakeholders.
