Justin Hamilton

 

Justin Hamilton is a husband, father, foster father, artist, architect, and Managing Director and Founder of Newcastle based SHAC, a practice of 30 Architects and Interior Designers. His career spans 30 years across domestic and commercial Architecture, Interior Design, Master Planning right through to project construction and post occupancy. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects, and his passion is Education Ecosystems.
Justin brings an infectious, passionate, positive and pragmatic approach to whole of school systems. He specialises in existing brown-field (established and often rabbit warren like) sites, green-field sites (new school planting) and blue-field schools (blue-sky think tanks). Justin advises leading education providers in Australia, most significantly St Philip’s Christian Colleges, Catholic Schools NSW, Anglican Schools Australia, many private and independent schools and Schools Infrastructure NSW. He has presented and participated at the AIS Tomorrow’s Environments for Learning (TEL) Workshops, the National Summit on Planting New Christian Schools and the Learning Environments Australasia (LEA) Conferences over the last decade.
Justin spends time with educators, researchers, school executives and students to improve and innovate education space design: a permeable envelope that manifests pedagogy. By providing agile, adaptive and responsible places, SHAC delivers places of joy, discovery, safety, wellbeing and belonging. This has led to many opportunities to provide exciting and innovative solutions such as producing policy for NSW Government on Design Guidelines for Primary Schools within Vertical and Integrated Environments and Pre-K or Prep design patterns for various schools. SHAC were awarded the highest honour for architecture in regional NSW, the RAIA Blacket Award for their St. Patrick’s Primary School, Lochinvar NSW.
SHAC have created a unique 10-point plan for delivering Education Ecosystems. This framework delivers efficient, flexible and adaptable architecture through an open collaborative discourse with school communities starting with a robust and often provocative collaborative masterplan. This provides the opportunity for business case, growth patterns, old infrastructure, technology, innovation, sustainability and future proofing to be incorporated into education ecosystems. SHAC considers staging, grant funding, affordability, maintenance and prefabrication systems right from the very first moments of collaboration.

Presentation: Be the Master of Your Planning

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