Kelly Rattigan

Kelly Rattigan is an Australian architect and the founding Managing Director of Formworks Architecture, established in 2001.[1] In 2012 Architectural Review Asia Pacific wrote a piece on her titled 'One to Watch'[2] following the Australian Institute of Architects awarding her the National Emerging Architect Prize[3] for excellence in design, practice, education and community involvement, and the WA 40 awarding her under40[4] for entrepreneurial achievement and business leadership.

Kelly Rattigan of Formworks Architecture

Education

Rattigan completed a Bachelor of Science (Environmental Design) at the University of Western Australia in 1994 in which she had a year of experience in Studio Daniel Libeskind.[5] She then completed a Bachelor of Architecture with Honours at RMIT University in 1998. During which time she studied under Peter Corrigan, whom Rattigan would later credit him as being the influence on her teaching that “any idea is a good idea,” and to just “start and see where it goes”.[6] Prior to establishing Formworks Architecture, Rattigan spent these two years working as a Graduate Architect at Peter Elliott Architecture & Urban Design.[5] In 2012, Rattigan was awarded the Australian Institute of Architects National Emerging Architect Prize for excellence, design, practice, education and community involvement, as well as a WA 40 under40 Award for entrepreneurial achievement and business leadership.[6] Upon being awarded the AIA National Emerging Architect Prize, Rattigan was recognized as having “demonstrated outstanding leadership in advocating for, and providing design for disadvantaged members of the community, particularly indigenous and rural communities, illustrating her admirable “design is for all” theoretical position. Her work for the disadvantaged, where fees and budgets are often insurmountable obstacles to the design and production of architecture, are for Kelly a challenge, rather than an impediment.”[7] Along with her graduate studies at RMIT University, Rattigan spent these two years working as a Graduate Architect at Peter Elliott Architecture & Urban Design.

Professional career

Practice

Founded in 2001, Rattigan has built a reputation with Formworks for design innovation and an ability to work with clients in working out complex projects with few precedents. She has worked as Project Direction and Design Director on many projects in Western Australia, consistently endeavouring to incorporate ESD principles and initiatives into her designs with the help of grants and other extra funding.[5]
One of Formworks’ most noted works to date has been the Lime Street project for St Bartholomew’s House in East Perth, completed in August 2012. The highly successful building is entirely devoted to housing homeless men in a safe, secure and pleasant setting, deftly taking into account the needs of clients and the various site-specific considerations, such as nearby roadways, and producing a consistently excellent response.[6]

Rattigan’s firm is one of Australia’s few fully integrated Building Information Management (BIM) practices, employing a contemporary method of design and documentation that increases productivity and brings greater accessibility into the design process. Along with this Rattigan has developed an innovative client briefing process called ‘Success by Design’, which works to educate clients about the design process and increase their sense of involvement in the final design outcome.[8]

At Formworks, Rattigan endeavours to use her technological systems and in-house specialists to ensure that clients receive such advantages as the full focus of experienced practice staff – without handing clients off to less experienced staff – the benefits of full BIM integration, value-add services by which an in-house business consultant can analyse a project from a business point of view, and various staff with specific specialist skills in certain areas of design.

Publications

Innovation in Practice / When, How, and Why? Australian Institute of Architect, Western Australia Chapter publication The Architect March 2009[9]

Selected Works

Built

Aged Care and Health
Hospitality and Tourism
Community and Master Plan

Notable project

Lime Street stands out as a project because of the deft and varied way in which Rattigan has identified and responded to the various site and program requirements associated with the building in order to form a highly effective and cohesive final scheme. Designed for St Batholemew's House, a support organization for homeless people, the building sits alongside a major highway. Dealing with the need to safely and humanely house a range of residents in different states of distress while existing in a challenging pedestrian environment, Rattigan manages to responsibly deal with a budget of $34m in creating what is widely considered one of Australia's foremost care facilities.[10]

The building is a case of total design, with great sympathy being displayed for the situations of its potential residents, as visual cues of home and domesticity pervade the building, private rooftop gardens offer comfortable views both towards and away from the apartment blocks, as well as a chance for residents to express themselves.[11]

Recognition and Awards

References

  1. ↑ "KELLY â€" Formworks Architecture". Formworks.com.au. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  2. ↑ "One to Watch: Kelly Rattigan | Australian Design Review". www.australiandesignreview.com. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  3. ↑ "2012 Emerging Architect Prize". ArchitectureAU. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  4. 1 2 "Kelly Rattigan | 40under40". www.40under40.com.au. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  5. 1 2 3 "Kelly Rattigan | LinkedIn". Au.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  6. 1 2 3 "One to Watch: Kelly Rattigan". Australian Design Review. 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  7. ↑ "2012 Winners - Australian Institute of Architects". Raia.com.au. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  8. ↑ "OUR POINTS OF DIFFERENCE — Formworks Architecture". Formworks.com.au. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  9. ↑ "The Architect March 2009" (PDF).
  10. ↑ "Lime Street, Perth, by Formworks". Australian Design Review. 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  11. ↑ "Lime Street: Australia’s Leading Social Housing Project". Sourceable.net. 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  12. 1 2 "Ms Kelly Rattigan | World Cities Summit". www.worldcitiessummit.com.sg. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  13. ↑ "Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011".
  14. ↑ "2012 Emerging Architect Prize". ArchitectureAU. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  15. ↑ "Lime Street - Architecture Gallery - Australian Institute of Architects, The Voice of Australian Architecture". dynamic.architecture.com.au. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  16. ↑ Urban Development Institute of Australia. "Urban Development Institute of Australia - WA, Award for Excellence 2013" (PDF).
  17. ↑ Urban Development Institute of Australia - WA. "Urban Development Institute of Australia - WA, Awards of Excellence" (PDF).

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