Alberto Quizon

2024 Houses Awards Winner: New House over 200 square metres Houses Magazine Aug 2024 Jury Citation"Shed House is an exemplary model for flexible living in a suburban context. The project combines the clients’ home and workspace, and offers a way of living that not only embraces a balance between the two, but also ensures adaptability within each realm. The ground floor is loosely programmed, with limited walls and structure. Spaces are arranged around a central courtyard and can be occupied in various configurations for business and leisure.The upper floor contains… Show more Jury Citation"Shed House is an exemplary model for flexible living in a suburban context. The project combines the clients’ home and workspace, and offers a way of living that not only embraces a balance between the two, but also ensures adaptability within each realm. The ground floor is loosely programmed, with limited walls and structure. Spaces are arranged around a central courtyard and can be occupied in various configurations for business and leisure.The upper floor contains the domestic functions of the house. Living, kitchen and dining rooms are oriented to the courtyard, while bedrooms are positioned in the corners. The planning allows for an inward-focused occupation of the site, ensuring privacy and amenity on a typical suburban site.In a time of escalating material and labour costs, the house embraces standard fabricationmethods and materials, with an evocative and economical facade of corrugated steel. A covered verandah leads to the conventional front door, but the real engagement with the street is enabled by large, retractable doors at the building’s front and back that achieve a permeable plan.Evocative of the Australian shed in a suburban context, Shed House achieves a lot with limited means. The jury applauded this readily customisable and replicable model for living and working." Show less

2024 AIA NSW Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New) Australian Institute of Architects Jul 2024 Jury Citation"Shed House, in Sydney’s Earlwood, promotes an alternative housing model for our suburbs. It presents a work-live, environmentally responsive housing type set to change our suburbs for the better.Accommodating the needs of a family’s furniture business on site, Breakspear Architects have fashioned a house that pushes beyond the typical. The ground floor, a workshop space, is adaptable for family uses, parties and guests. The house itself is located at the first floor… Show more Jury Citation"Shed House, in Sydney’s Earlwood, promotes an alternative housing model for our suburbs. It presents a work-live, environmentally responsive housing type set to change our suburbs for the better.Accommodating the needs of a family’s furniture business on site, Breakspear Architects have fashioned a house that pushes beyond the typical. The ground floor, a workshop space, is adaptable for family uses, parties and guests. The house itself is located at the first floor with a unique floorplate – a cruciform of living spaces arranged around a central courtyard with bedrooms at each corner. The plan provides for windows to all rooms at front and rear – a masterstroke in planning suggesting a new kind of terrace house arrangement, repeatable across a suburb.The house is exquisitely detailed with all attention and no fuss. It’s a house that puts forward a positive alternative to the future development of our suburbs." Show less

2020 AIA NSW Awards, Robert Woodward Award for Small Project Architecture - Winner Australian Institute of Architects Nov 2020 Jury citation"Chrofi’s Marsden Park Amenities continues a renewed interest in providing civic facilities within emerging suburbs. The value of this work is the seriousness with which Chrofi has applied its skills to provide a design quality seldom seen in new subdivisions. A forest of galvanized steel trees holds up a light and diaphanous roof of metallic mesh. Within, a series of change rooms, toilets and showers is housed in sinuous, fluted concrete. The project raises the bar in terms of… Show more Jury citation"Chrofi’s Marsden Park Amenities continues a renewed interest in providing civic facilities within emerging suburbs. The value of this work is the seriousness with which Chrofi has applied its skills to provide a design quality seldom seen in new subdivisions. A forest of galvanized steel trees holds up a light and diaphanous roof of metallic mesh. Within, a series of change rooms, toilets and showers is housed in sinuous, fluted concrete. The project raises the bar in terms of how the profession can give dignity to these utilitarian interventions while advocating for the value and importance of well designed public buildings wherever they are needed." Show less

Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship Architects Registration Board Feb 2018

Dulux Study Tour Prize 2017 Australian Institute of Architects Mar 2017 Recipient of the 2017 Dulux Study Tour Prize in recognition of contributions to architectural practice, education, design excellence and community involvement.

Architizer A+ Awards, Unbuilt Institutional - Ian Potter National Conservatory Architizer A+ Awards Feb 2017 Design lead at CHROFI

Ian Potter National Conservatory Australian National Botanic Gardens Oct 2016 Winner of an invited design competition. Design lead at CHROFIJury Citation:"The Jury was impressed by the crafted relationship between the architectural form, identity and choreographed displays. From the outside the building presents as a translucent box of varying transparency that entices the visitor toward it in the manner of a landmark object sculpting out space. On arrival a glint of green slices through the form providing a tantalising hint of the verdant splendour of plants… Show more Winner of an invited design competition. Design lead at CHROFIJury Citation:"The Jury was impressed by the crafted relationship between the architectural form, identity and choreographed displays. From the outside the building presents as a translucent box of varying transparency that entices the visitor toward it in the manner of a landmark object sculpting out space. On arrival a glint of green slices through the form providing a tantalising hint of the verdant splendour of plants within. Entering at ground level the visitor is transported into a secret and fertile tropical world of exhibits that ultimately winds upwards through the internal void towards the sky-lit roof. At night the container glows softly as a mesmerising reminder of the rich story of all of Australia’s diverse species exhibited throughout the gardens." Show less

My Ideal House Mirvac, House and Garden Magazine Apr 2016 Competition Finalist

Barangaroo Beacon Lend Lease Mar 2016 Winner of an invited design competition. Design lead at CHROFI

Re-Imagine George St Urban Land Institute, Sydney Dec 2015 Competition Winner

27 Smith Street: House of the Future Sydney Living Museums Nov 2014 Competition Winner & People's Choice Award

Marsden Park Amenities Stockland Jun 2014 Winner of an invited design competition. Design lead at CHROFI

Parramatta Park Amenities Parramatta Park Trust Sep 2013 Winner of an invited design competition. Design lead at CHROFI

Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter Graduate Design Medal Australian Institute of Architects NSW May 2011

Deans List Honrary University of Technology, Sydney Jan 2011