Sandberg Schoffel Architects

Role: Co-founder, Director

Pavilion style house built on a steeply sloping site at Smiths Lake NSW

Historic bluestone church repurposed into a modern dwelling

Waillea Apartment Building in North Steyne NSW

Inside view of the church showing its contemporary interior

Sandberg Schoffel Architects is a full service architectural practice providing high end sustainable design for single residential, multi-residential, community and commercial projects. They create contemporary innovative designs using light and space to create forms generated from the client’s intention and character, the brief and the site conditions.

All SSA projects integrate environmental sustainability principles and energy efficient design, creating solutions which reduce cost and environmental footprint. SSA has committed to Architects Declare.

I am a founding director of SSA since1993 and continue to practice part time depending on my humanitarian and other committiments.

During my 15 years of active practice within SSA I worked on hundreds of projects, mostly individual houses as well as undertaking much of the day to day practice management. Typical tasks included:

  • Overall practice governance and management

  • Financial management and strategic planning

  • Architectural design, documentation and project management

  • Human resources including the employment, training and mentoring of numerous young architects