About Us
What We Do
Since 2004, HATZ has delivered 200+ built projects. We are a Melbourne-based, multi-disciplinary studio working in architecture, interior design and landscape design.
Our services aren't what set us apart. We've deliberately focused on three sectors where architecture profoundly shapes human experience:
Education: spaces where tomorrow's leaders discover their potential.
Health: facilities where healing happens faster and care teams do their best work.
Luxury Residential: homes that don't just house your life but elevate it.
Beyond the Brief: exceptional work that defies easy categories and rewards careful thinking.
We stay engaged at every stage, because every project is different and because the buildings we design today are how we shape the future we believe in.
Why We Focus
We made a deliberate choice to focus.
By concentrating on these sectors, we have built a depth of expertise that compounds with every project:
In education, the craft of adaptive reuse: refurbishing and repurposing ageing campus buildings and turning every DDA-compliance upgrade into a more welcoming institution.
In health, the discipline of treating architecture as clinical infrastructure, where natural light, circulation and materials all serve recovery and the people delivering care.
In luxury residential, the resolve to make a home both bold and deeply liveable, where there is nowhere to hide and we would have it no other way.
Beyond the Brief, the judgement to recognise the rare project that fits none of these. A distinctive office fitout, a singular commission and the conviction to take it on when the client shares our belief that architecture should do more than function. The setting changes. Our standard never does.
Our Vision
Designing a Future Worth Healing InTM
Designing A Future Worth Learning InTM
Designing A Future Worth Living InTM
Our Mission
Delivering Client Success by Creating Memorable Buildings through Inspired People.
Our Values
Client Success - achieving outcomes that enhance our clients' success
Design Excellence - producing memorable buildings that push boundaries whilst remaining practical, functional and beautifully resolved
Inspired People - strengthening capabilities to develop the next generation of architectural leaders