DTB extends its’ architectural services according to the particular project requirements, to include the Interior Design elements, focussing on its’ structural, spatial, social and sensory experience.

Interior Architecture is the manipulation of the major building elements such as floors, ceilings, walls and staircases to provide the structural canvas for the overlay of fixtures, furniture, finishes, textures and colours that become the essence of the Interior Design.

In many instances the basic structural fabric and form (Interior Architecture) will be in existence and DTB will be required to work with these fixed elements to complete the Interior Design. For Research and Laboratory projects this can include the coordination of complex servicing and other technical requirements into the Interior Architecture.

DTB strongly believe that the Interior Architecture and Interior Design should complement the use and functionality of the space. The function of a space should be clearly read and easily understood. Whether it is the necessary clutter of a scientific space, the calm of a residential environment or race day stalls allowing the natural tones of the horses and the race day outfits to shine.

Lighting, both natural and artificial, are essential to the mood of an interior space. DTB specialise in detailing the fittings and fixtures to ensure that the sensory and visual effects of the space are carried through to the smallest item. Arriving late in the construction process, lighting can sometimes be compromised to save cost in the final phases of the building process. DTB will strongly support quality lighting due to its’ importance in the use and atmosphere of the designed space.

Multiple tools are used to convey the Concept to the Client and Stakeholders to aid in the spatial and sensory interpretation and understanding of the environment. DTB use 3D renderings & videos, mood boards, finishes selection boards, drawings, sketches and visits to suppliers or manufacturers to aid in the interpretation and presentation processes.

DTB continue to work on a range of building types and scales from residential refurbishment, office fit-out and churns, new and reused educational, highly specialised laboratory and research spaces to large-scale sport and recreation facilities.

DTB are currently commissioned for a wide range of Interior Architecture & Design projects.

DTB are maximising the use of our 3D capacity to assist clients requiring fit-out for specialist professional, consulting suites to confirm their unique image. DTBs’ expertise in Health Care is also ensuring that fit-outs comply with health requirements and disability inclusion. Working with tight spaces and expansive briefs, DTB utilise the spaces effectively while creating calm and professional environments.

Concept design has commenced for the conversion of an existing building into a highly specialised and PC2 contained research facility. While emphasis is necessarily maintained on the practical and decontaminated properties of the facility it will still need to be a cutting edge, professional and inspiring work place for humans.

The University of Technology Sydney is utilising DTB’s technical skills and attention to detail to resolve user interface and compliance issues with several complex and unique facilities including meeting rooms, offices workshops and recording studios. This work often requires the involvement of testing of spaces and solutions in conjunction with specialist consultants.

DTB continue to design, document and act as contract administrator for the upgrading of individual aged care units for the Abel Tasman Village to high-care dual units. The progress of time, client requirements and changing legislation since the first upgrade has necessitated continual review and adjustment of the original concepts. Future design now requiring the specific needs of Dementia care which will necessitate unit planning changes and will include the strengthening of the principle to create individual character for each unit. Careful selection of Interior finishes not only enhances individuality but provides passive assistance to frail individuals to identify with their own spaces.

Brief development for Clients with highly specialised Interior environments such as laboratories and research facilities is an aspect of Interior Architecture that DTB have particular expertise.

DTB are the Architect and Interior Designers for select private residential clients within the Sydney Inner West. These projects include alterations and extensions and refurbishment within heritage conservation zones.

 As Architects and Interior Designers for the new Oxford Falls Grammar School Seniors Wing, flexibility and controlled natural light have been key drivers in the Interior Design and finishing of the spaces.

Learning areas over two floors can be combined over an entire floor into a single or multiple of four spaces which are also able to expand into the adjoining circulation space with its’ Creek Street atmosphere. Staff and Teachers had to carefully consider the new challenges of teaching in such flexible and comfortable spaces. Particularly as they were responsible for choosing and purchasing the furniture. Obviously, taking colour cues from the interior finishes designed by DTB Architects they chose a variety of shapes and combinations in a range of stimulating colours.

Internal and external walls serve multiple purposes in addition to the usual enclosing and space dividing functions. External walls offer a range of functions including operable sun-shade louvres, operable glass louvres for control of natural ventilation, black-out blinds for AV work and sliding opaque writable screens. Internal bi-fold doors act as space changers, pin-boards, writable boards, light sources and acoustic barriers. These are being well utilised by teachers and students alike.

The double-height Multi-Purpose space, a portion of which is shared at Mezzanine level with the Seniors Private Study, is bathed in controlled natural light. Its’ potential for a host of activities previously unavailable to the School is now obvious from the various arrangements of quite different furniture allowing for a variety of uses. The Coffee Corner being discretely located with internal and external access is an added bonus to the flexibility and comfort of this area.

The University of New South Wales has carried out aesthetic upgrades to the public spaces of some of the older existing buildings. Aesthetic upgrade was concurrent with Accessibility and Compliance upgrades. The spaces include lobbies, stairwells, hallways, student recreation spaces, courtyards, roof gardens and amenities.

Brief development for Clients with highly specialised Interior environments such as laboratories and research facilities is an aspect of Interior Architecture that DTB have particular expertise. DTB recently developed Briefs for multiple Stakeholder Groups at the National Measurement Institute to allow Tenders for the major reconfiguration of their current buildings. To allow the NSW Government to seek properly briefed Design & Document Tenders for regional locations DTB Architects were commissioned to write generic briefs for specific laboratory & research facilities. This work involved development of templates to enable Stakeholders to easily respond to the information requirements.

DTB recently assisted a large sporting body with strategic analysis and feasibility studies to establish a suite of plans from recreational to high performance competition standards to suit a range of potential metropolitan and regional sites. The information is being used to facilitate and promote the sport.

DTB have recently completed several projects for private residential clients including the Interior Architecture. These projects included alterations and extensions and refurbishment within heritage conservation zones.

DTB Architects has since its’ inception designed, documented and overseen the construction of a broad range of buildings and interior spaces.

DTB continues to specialise in heritage buildings, laboratories and teaching spaces often tasked for a combination of all three. Major clients include the University of Sydney, University of New South Wales and University of Technology Sydney.

Aged Care and Health also form an integral of DTB’s extensive portfolio and includes new, existing and adapted buildings, aesthetic and compliance upgrades and peer review.

Tabcorp Park, Menangle a $35million project encompassing the Grandstands & Paceway, retail, dining and catering, commercial kitchens, administration building and the race stalls all on a grand scale for 1,000’s of participants.

The project comprised a mix of new and altered spaces most of which needed to be complete in a tight time frame to meet the Harness Racing calendars’ prestigious Inter Dominion Finals (2012 – 2014). The architectural challenges included adaptive reuse of a heritage building, environmental initiatives to conserve and recycle and DTB’s own initiative to create special viewing platforms within the race stalls so that racegoers could view at close range, highly trained and excitable horses without disturbing them and without spoiling the racegoers race day outfits.

 Abel Tasman Village – Residential Aged Care – Unit upgrade. As the individual independent living cottages become available, they are converted to dual high-care units within the new single facility.

The finishes and colours of each unit conversion are altered to reinforce the individuality of the units and create a non-institutional atmosphere. Individual colours and finishes aid the care environment by assisting the residents to identify their individual place. Practical challenges are the nuances of each existing cottage and the practical and legislative challenges of a high-care facility.

Abel Tasman Village – Residential Aged Care – Link Building. All twelve existing cottages were linked to an internal corridor thereby creating a single high-care facility while residents remained in their individual cottages. The building also contains three lounge/ dining areas and a nurses’ station. Designed as an internal “street” with the existing tiled cottage roofs and exposed brick facades penetrating the exterior wall. To reinforce the “street” atmosphere, street furniture and street lighting were included in the interior design.

Inner West Council – Fanny Durack Café – the Client’s signature finishes in other cafes were warm timbers. In lieu of a stainless steel café fitout, a recently felled tree within the park environment was treated and shaped and used to emphasise the transparent look and feel of the space.

St Vincent de Paul Society – Ozanam Industries – Consolidation and conversion of existing warehouses used as a packaging facility staffed by people with various disabilities, to a modern, efficient facility with new lobby and meeting rooms, staff amenities and recreational facilities. Each warehouse space was treated individually to create a clear spatial break between work areas, break-out spaces, storage and loading areas.

Features of the employee work-space included impressive saw-tooth roofs, clerestory glazing, exposed hardwood trusses and beams which were all utilised to provide natural light, air and vistas. Low-lying “pods” became meeting places, each capturing glimpses of the space within which they were nestled.

Northern Haematology & Oncology Group were one of the first private consultancies to move into the new purpose designed cancer centre in the Adventist Hospital, Wahroonga. Their requirement was for reception, waiting, consulting, administration and storage rooms within the allocated space. While the fit-out needed to reflect NHOG’s own branding, there were also strict guidelines within the cancer centres’ style and mood.

Adventist Hospital Dalcross – Day Surgery & Rehabilitation. DTB Architects were involved in the transition of several medical services from Killara to the main hospital at Wahroonga. Thus creating the opportunity for Dalcross to expand their Rehabilitation facilities and capacity and to introduce a Day Procedures Clinic.

The Clinic required that the new entry lobby, reception and waiting areas introduce the new style that the hospital was creating for their masterplanning of the site. Clean, modern and reassuring were the key experiences that were to be conveyed. DTB utilised a series of “mood” boards to allow the Client and Stakeholders to arrive at their preferred choices.