Judy van Gelderen

operating as Director

Judy is a landscape architect  and a Doctor of Environmental Design with over 35 year’s experience. Judy applies environmentally sustainable principles to the landscape design resolution of large-scale projects, both in Australia and overseas. She has completed a wide range of prominent projects including large foreshore parks, major road and rail infrastructure, urban and national parks, botanic gardens, public domain, historic gardens,  as well as strategic and master planning  projects.

Judy’s high ethic for the environment engenders her commitment to delivering sustainable design solutions with a clear vision.  She applies her strategic thinking and creative design abilities to the integration of broad scale landscape planning and urban design concepts down to the detail design. It is this ability and her passion in understanding and exploring the connectedness with the landscape that inspire her to deliver unique designs that reflect the nature and culture of a particular place.

Judy has won multiple awards for her work with sensitive water design, environmental planning, landscape architecture and urban design, and has experience in all aspects of landscape architecture. As her expertise spans a wide experience base, Judy often leads multi-disciplinary teams, with strategic vision, sound environmental ethics, and a cooperative approach to integrate the big picture so that the outcomes reflect a sense of place, sustainable principles, and community aspirations. Adding to her string of achievements, Judy is also a Churchill Fellow (2000), and in her fellowship, she researched sustainable water planning and design through developments in Europe and Israel.

Key expertise includes:

• Creating landscapes that are unique and responsive to place and people
• Advanced interdisciplinary skills to achieve triple bottom line outcomes
• Specialist in water sensitive planning /creative rainwater design
• Green infrastructure- planning integrated “blue/green” open space systems, green walls, green roofs

Judy is passionate about sustainability and believes:

“landscapes are more than patterns on the ground”

Miguel Wustemann

operating as Director

Miguel has over 32 years of experience as an architect and city and regional planner who specialises in urban design, master planning, architecture and infrastructure planning. His multi-disciplinary skills and broad experience on a variety of projects internationally ranging from strategic planning, high rise construction, heritage conservation, transport and urban regeneration provides a thorough understanding of the complex issues regarding urban environments, their interfaces and functional integration.

Miguel has worked on numerous large scale urban regeneration and infrastructure projects in Australia, Germany, China and USA. His experience in collaborating with Government authorities on complex multimillion development and transport projects both here and overseas underpins his expertise in helping set new visions for urban environments.

He gained valuable experience in large scale urban master plans and high rise construction during his eleven year stay in Chicago, USA, working under the guidance of Joe Fujikawa (Mies van der Rohe’s business partner) at Fujikawa Johnson & Associates. He later established his own architecture and planning practice in Dresden, Germany where he advised Government authorities in strategic urban planning issues. He has been practicing in Australia for the last 17 years as director of Infranet and then KI Studio collaborating on high profile projects in Australia and overseas.

His specific areas of expertise are:

• Architecture
• Urban design
• City and regional planning
• Strategic planning

Miguel has a strong passion in design and believes:

“vibrant urban spaces are rich and layered; engaging designs contribute to this outcome”

Nominated Architect (NSW) 10118