Lisa Kuiri
Lisa Kuiri, PhD candidate in the School of Architecture, University of Queensland.
Lisa Kuiri is PhD candidate in the School of Architecture, University of Queensland. Her research project Adaptable and Scalable Housing for Australian Households focusses on combining the two approaches of design for adaptability together with design for disassembly, to increase housing longevity and keep construction materials in loops of use for longer for the Australian housing context. Taking a user centred approach and collecting data by an online survey for householders and interviews with housing providers and construction industry stakeholders, the key research output will be a series of spatial configurations of different household’s needs as they transition through the life course.
Over the last ten years, Lisa has been tutoring at the School of Architecture in courses on building science, construction technology, and more recently circular design. Circular design is the emerging field of designing products and buildings for the transition from the conventional linear economy to a circular economy, necessary on our planet of finite resources. Lisa has tutored hundreds of architecture students in sustainable house and office design, focussing on integrating passive design principles for thermal comfort of occupants and energy efficiency, solar energy generation and rainwater harvesting. In 2016 she completed a Master of Philosophy research project, Passive Cooling for a Brisbane School.
Prior to UQ, Lisa practiced as an architect in Brisbane for seventeen years and was at BVN for ten of these. She has designed and documented a range of building types including a childcare centre, mid-rise office buildings, medium density residential projects, shopping centres, warehouses, and social housing.
