Home Masterclass
We love to start our projects with an in-depth session to really get to know you and how you like to live. Step by step we take you through a journey to extract your ideal brief, tailored to your life. What’s included: First, we start by getting to know you and how you like to live in a home in depth. Our human-centred program will connect you to your personal experiences of space – and help us create living environments that reflect you, your values and aspirations. Undertaken in your home to give us further insight on how you live.
About the Masterclass
Step by step we take you through a journey to extract your ideal brief, tailored to your life. What’s included: First, we start by getting to know you and how you like to live in a home in depth. Our human-centred program will connect you to your personal experiences of space – and help us create living environments that reflect you, your values and aspirations. Undertaken in your home to give us further insight on how you live.
This masterclass has been developed by our colleagues and friends at Surroundings. Surroundings is a specialist consultancy in human-centred design who facilitate workshops between clients and architects to help people clarify, articulate and realise their ideal home environments.
What’s included
A three-hour workshop with your architect, Tim Bennetton,
A 4-step activity program to understand your relationship with space
A presentation portfolio of your activities, exercises and ideas
2 digital surveys to help you to list the spaces you want, your budget & timing
The perfect springboard to create designs around your desired experiences.
We come to your home, it adds to our process and gives us an understanding of how you like to live. If this isn’t possible you are welcome to join us in the creative environment of the Tim Bennetton Architects’ studio.
The home masterclass is $1500 ex gst.
Book now through Tim and receive a 20% discount.
At times Tim runs group sessions with multiple clients to reduce the cost for everyone.
Chat to Tim if this sounds like an option you would like to explore.
What clients say
“The Home Masterclass was a revelation. Before I did the program, I had a rough idea of what I liked and didn’t like, but didn’t have any real direction. It’s really helped me understand who I am, what I love, and what I want in a home. Of course, the answers are all in your head – it’s just a brilliant way of drawing them out!”
“This was my favourite part of the renovation process. Actually it was because of the workshop we felt completely confident with our plans and subsequent build. Our renovated space is a joy to live in and we enjoy getting to know how it responds to each season and time of day.”
“The surroundings masterclass allowed us to tap into elements of creativity we didn’t know we had and I discovered how creative my husband could be. It was a real discovery process for us, we discovered things even about each other and we’ve been married 25 years now so that’s always nice to discover something new after that time. What was really valuable was to find out how aligned we both were in our thinking.”
Why Tim uses the masterclass
The Surroundings Masterclass is an invaluable step in the design process for clients. It is also very important for us architects. It allows us collectively to design something that goes beyond the practical and even the beautiful. Architects quite rightly concentrate on aesthetics and the feel of a house. But for those of us who take a human centred design approach it allows us to tailor all this effort to achieve a client’s dreams, not ours. So this covers all the positive things we can achieve with a masterclass - but it also helps us avoid a number of pitfalls.
Constructing new houses and renovations costs a lot - just for the building, without including permits and fees. As a client the last thing you want is a false start with the design process, but even worse is getting to the end and really not being as happy as you could be. The masterclass helps us go way beyond the ordinary, capturing the culture and values of our clients and and in the end saves money and time also.
Design Tools.
Tim Bennetton Home Surveys
We have developed digital surveys to guide you to explore your brief. The surveys are both a great opportunity for you to reflect on what is important in your life and what should be important in your new home and a great insight for us to start to understand your requirements for your house.
Originally developed for our clients to help them communicate their wish list to us - we welcome anyone to have a play and explore their ideal home. Each survey takes around 15 minutes.
Part I : People, budget and timing
Take time to consider your budget constraints and highlight important timing for your project. Explore and capture the people in your household.
Part I I : Spaces, sustainability and values