MERIDIAN

A-01 STUDIO · Studio 4, 88 Regent Street, Chippendale NSW 2008

A studio that starts at dawn.

Six people, one meridian line drawn through every project. The drawings are code; the code is drawn. Below: the studio's method, set out as general notes.

INSTRUMENT — HELIODON 01

Move the cursor across the sheet — you are holding the sun.Drag across the sheet — you are holding the sun.

The model is our own roof: sheet A-03.2, the Chippendale Yard printworks. Its louvres answer whatever hour you choose.

1200

ALT 78° · AZ 000°

LOUVRE PITCH 38°

SOLAR PLOT — H1 · ALTITUDE × TIME · COMPUTED FROM SHEET SOLAR MATH

GENERAL NOTES — READ WITH ALL SHEETS

The method, as notes.

  1. MERIDIAN was founded on a simple refusal: we do not design a building and then add windows.

  2. Every project starts on the site, at dawn, with a sun-path diagram and nothing else — no brief on the table, no material board, no plan.

  3. We watch where the light wants to go for a full year before we draw a single wall.

  4. The result is architecture that changes without moving: rooms that are cool blue at 7am and gold at 5pm.

  5. Facades that shade themselves without a single mechanical part; buildings that tell the time without a clock.

  6. We are a small studio, deliberately — six people, one meridian line drawn through every project we take on.

Studio facts

PRINCIPAL
Freya Lindqvist
Principal Architect & Director
STUDIO
Studio 4, 88 Regent Street, Chippendale NSW 2008
PEOPLE
Six — deliberately. One meridian line each.

PRACTICE AREAS — LEGEND

  • ResidentialA-03.1
  • Adaptive ReuseA-03.2
  • Cultural & CivicA-03.3
  • WorkplaceA-03.4

The studio itself is a light study — a 1960s printworks that learned to tell the time.

OPEN SHEET A-03.2 — CHIPPENDALE YARD