Pink Moon Saloon
The South Australian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects has awarded Matiya Marovich the 2017 Jack Hobbs McConnell Travelling Fellowship. Source: ArchitectureAU
Now in its 10th year, the $15,000 fellowship is awarded each year to a promising designer, who might ultimately practise in South Australia, to undertake an independent program of research or course of further study in architecture or a related field.
The fellowship was established following a bequest from the estate of modernist architect Jack Hobbs McConnell, who died in 2005.
Marovich will use the fellowship to investigate the potential applications of timber construction in urban and regional Australia, with the intention to champion renewable and sustainably farmed timber as a key component in the transition to more sustainable construction methods across Australia.
Marovich’s research will investigate two streams of timber construction: high-tech and low-tech.
The first will be modern timber construction methodologies that use engineered timber to build tall timber buildings through an internship in Vancouver, Canada.
The second will see Marovich spend time in Canada, China and Nepal, where he will research traditional building techniques developed more than 500 years ago and explore potential application in rural and remote areas of Australia.
The judging panel was “thoroughly impressed with the quality of applications submitted but ultimately identified with the clarity and conviction of [Marovich’s] proposal and its potential to have an immediate impact on his development in his craft and the growth of his burgeoning practice.
Marovich is a graduate architect. His practice Sans-Arc Studio designed the Pink Moon Saloon bar and eatery in Adelaide, which won Best Bar Design at the 2016 Eat Drink Design Awards and the City of Adelaide Prize at the 2016 South Australian Architecture Awards.
