Tobias Horrocks runs architecture and design practice Fold Theory, and teaches architectural design, history and theory at the University of Melbourne. He has an abiding interest in environmental sustainability.
Tobias Horrocks's Latest contributions
Laboratory in a ruin: Grown Alchemist
In its design for a flagship skincare store behind a dilapidated terrace house in Melbourne’s Carlton, Herbert and Mason in collaboration with Grown Alchemist contrasts the pristine with the industrial to enhance both qualities.
Power of simplicity: Mt Eliza House
In this residence on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, the dual influences of one client’s Scandinavian heritage and the suburb’s legacy of mid-century design coalesce in an understated house that revels in the beauty of simplicity.
One to watch: Blair Smith Architecture
Valuing good relationships over architectural space or form, Blair Smith of Blair Smith Architecture has cultivated a design process that allows his clients’ personalities to have full expression.
‘A cascading series of salon spaces’: Garden House
Soft boundaries create multipurpose spaces that reflect a young couple’s character while generous windows connect interiors with “domesticated wilds” around this fluid, functional Melbourne home.
Hard worker: Albert Park Terrace
This renovation of an inner-Melbourne terrace by Wellard Architects cleverly navigates the site’s constrained footprint, employing key architectural moves that make for an efficient and uplifting family home.
‘Changing the performance’: Camperdown Warehouse
Fusing concepts inherent in furniture design and architecture, this conversion of a former motor vehicle factory in Sydney serves as a prototype for a novel approach to adaptive re-use.
Weaving memories of India: Gunjan Aylawadi
Sydney-based industrial designer and self-taught artist Gunjan Aylawadi makes paper weavings inspired by her memories of India.
An aesthetic rapport: The Chimney House
Filling a gap in a row of heritage terrace houses, this project by Arque involved the insertion of a self-contained apartment and the expansion and refinement of the owners’ existing house into a gallery-like space, filled with contemporary art.
No place like home: Paramount House Hotel
Located in the former headquarters of Paramount Picture Studios in Surry Hills, Sydney, this hotel designed by Breathe Architecture explores the narrative between place and home.
A neighbourly venture: Loft House x2
Born of a unique collaboration between neighbours, this project by Brad Swartz Architects saw two rear-lane parking spaces in inner Sydney transformed into spatially elegant one-bedroom dwellings that evoke a sense of calm.