SEQ is growing rapidly—3.3 million people today, rising to 6 million by 2046—while facing intensifying heat, floods, and ecological decline. These pressures demand climate-resilient, nature-led planning. Biophilic Urbanism treats nature as infrastructure, cooling places, reducing risk, improving health, and shifting SEQ toward a resilient, inclusive future.

Kangaroo Point Library is a proposal for social housing on Main Street. The project aims to set a precedent by creating a safe pedestrian environment, ‘third spaces’ for the community, adaptively reusing the existing buildings on site, and recycling materials where adaptive reuse is not possible. This should become the first response for new development to ensure a more resilient future.

Kangaroo Point Library is a proposal for social housing on Main Street. The project aims to set a precedent by creating a safe pedestrian environment, ‘third spaces’ for the community, adaptively reusing the existing buildings on site, and recycling materials where adaptive reuse is not possible. This should become the first response for new development to ensure a more resilient future.

This project reimagines an ex-industrial site on the Kurilpa peninsula a resilient and sustainable urban community. Our regeneration plan integrates strategies across all pillars of sustainability with coordinated land use and mobility planning. This provides for necessary housing growth while respecting local expectations, maximising environmental and social benefit.

A unique approach to the ARCH3200 Graduation Hall design brief. Instead of proposing a new building, Isabella designed an adaptive reuse of the existing UQ Art Museum (formerly Mayne Hall). In the spirit of “Minimal Intervention”, the Forgan Smith forecourt site was preserved, the neighbouring Mod West building is to be disassembled, with the sum of its parts to be used to construct the new hall.

This project investigates how Brisbane City Council’s Green Factor Tool can be strategically applied to enhance the ecological performance of high-density social housing. Using the Curwen Terrace development as a case study, the research models green façades, roofs, and rain gardens to evaluate their environmental impact and feasibility

This project weaves urban farming into a residential setting, transforming underused spaces to support productivity, community engagement, and cultural connection. Inspired by West End’s winemaking heritage, garden structures, compost systems, and horticultural elements create a sustainable, social, and adaptable living environment.