Pavilions

A warm space for ideas, collaboration knowledge-sharing, and industry insights.

DESIGNERS:

StudioSpillane : A premier Brisbane-based commercial interior design studio specialising in low-impact, deeply functional spaces across hospitality, aviation, and retail. Studio Spillane prioritise recycled materials and local Australian craftspeople.

Circular Design Thinking

MATERIALS PARTNERS:

• XFrame : An innovative circular building solution, XFRAME manufacture a modular, screwless, and glueless timber framing system designed for effortless dismantling, reuse, and zero construction waste.
• Signature Floors : A leading Australian flooring manufacturer focused on closed-loop life cycles. Signature Flooring provide high-performance, carbon-neutral carpet tiles and sustainable hybrid flooring resilient systems.
• E9 Design : A Sydney-based premium furniture maker. They craft high-comfort, customizable modular lounges utilizing a fully transparent local supply chain to ensure minimal transport emissions and maximum product longevity.
• Textile Recyclers Group : Environmental pioneers diverting commercial fabrics from landfill. TRA specialise in sorting, processing, and converting post-consumer textile waste into reused resources and industrial raw materials.
• Cultivated : A circular economy initiative and product stewardship program that partners with local artisans to restore, buy back, and reinvent authentic designer furniture, combatting disposable furniture culture and keeping it out of landfill.
• Defy Design : A design and manufacturing studio transforming post-consumer plastic into high-value items. Defy use specialised local micro-factories to achieve a 100% recycled material supply chain.
• Circular Sourcing : An innovative digital marketplace platform, Circular Sourcing connect fashion brands and interior designers directly to premium, surplus, textile waste, and deadstock fabrics to eliminate industrial textile destruction.

DESIGN PARTNER:

Green Sheep Collective: An award-winning Melbourne architecture firm specialising in residential architecture that maximizes energy efficiency and healthy living.

MATERIALS PARTNERS:

• Britton Timbers: One of Australia's largest timber importers and distributors, Britton Timbers supply legally, ethically, and PEFC/FSC-certified sustainably harvested hardwoods for premium architectural applications.
• Sustainable Living Fabrics: Eco-textile innovators offering commercial-grade upholstery. SLV fabrics utilise GECA-certified local Australian wool made with non-hazardous dyes and heavy-metal-free processing.
• Cultivated : (Collaborating across spaces) Presenting their landmark circular restoration and buy-back framework for high-end corporate furniture.

A masterclass in timber circularity, advanced architectural systems, and low-energy lighting.

DESIGN PARTNER:

Topology Studio: A Melbourne-based architectural practice, Topology create resilient buildings tailored to the landscape, utilising low-embodied-energy materials and climate-responsive design.

MATERIALS PARTNERS:

• Hydrowood: A beautiful ethical timber brand, Hydrowood salvage premium, historical hardwoods lost underwater in Tasmanian hydro lakes, offering a finite resource with zero new logging footprint.
• XFrame: (Collaborating across spaces) XFrame are providing the structural grid framework for this pavilion, showcasing the rapid assembly and disassembly potential for temporary spaces.
• Hauslights: Architectural illumination experts supply vibrant, handcrafted glass LED fixtures blown locally in Melbourne with clean energy profiles and timeless artistic merit.
• Gibbon Group / Gibbon Architectural: Commercial floor covering specialists, Gibbon are the exclusive Australian distributors of Tretford goat-hair carpets, prized for natural indoor air purification and architectural acoustic properties.
• 13 Architectural Timber: Focused on delivering the design intent, Thirteen Architectural Timbers is the link between design and build, manufacturing locally with in-house experts.
• Bricolage: Founded by Dan Barker, Bricolage reflects Dan's carpentry roots and advanced training in French cabinetry, veneering, and fine furniture making.
• Twenty Nine Ideas is a highly specialised Australian sales and marketing agency that focuses on the timber, frame, and truss industry. Founded by industry expert Julia Hall, the consultancy helps timber mills, manufacturers, and fabricators transition ‘from invisibility to influence’ by leveraging The Ultimate Renewable - timber.

Exploring fast-growing biomaterials and hand-built organic furniture.

DESIGN PARTNERS:

Studio x Us & Up to Something

MATERIALS PARTNERS:

• House of Bamboo: Australia’s leading supplier of engineered bamboo. They provide rapidly renewable, carbon-sequestering bamboo panels, screening, and cladding as a high-strength alternative to traditional timber.
• Market Timbers: Reclaimed and sustainable timber merchants. Based in Melbourne, they supply sustainably sourced timber and recycled structural timbers curated for architectural impact.
• Mark Tuckey: Iconic Australian timber furniture designers, Mark Tuckey handcraft statement residential and commercial pieces using recycled or sustainably managed local timbers and non-toxic oil finishes.