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Humdrum HQ

2022-2023
Team: Sion Bourne

Quantity Surveyor: Rawlinsons WA
Building Surveyor: Building Certification Services WA

Humdrum is a Western Australian NDIS registered organisation with a mission to combat isolation and boredom for individuals living with disabilities.

Acquiring an old Beaconsfield grocery store & shopkeepers’ residence in 2022, Humdrum engaged Bourne Architecture to provide conceptual design work for the company’s new staff headquarters. The proposed workplace attempts to retain and upcycle the existing shop building to meet present-day codes & regulations whilst providing a desirable workplace for staff and clients.

‘Indirectness’ and ‘ambiguity’ were key positions adopted throughout the concept design phase. For us the project was rooted in the contradiction between Humdrum’s expressive ‘non-boring’ attitude and suburban expectations of being contextual & neighbourly. The project is currently on hold as of 2023.

“I Am a Monument”: original illustration by Venturi, Brown & Izenour.