Cutting International House

This project reimagines the former International House as the Gadigal Centre of Excellence, a place of cultural connection, learning, and belonging. By preserving the core structures while cutting new spatial channels through the building, the design challenges colonial rigidity and invites openness, light, and movement. Adaptive reuse, layered history, and Country are central themes, with bridges linking three distinct forms: rotunda, tower, and yarning circle. These connections foster narrative-driven circulation and gathering. Native landscaping restores ecological integrity and honours Gadigal land. The result is a living framework that listens to place, amplifies stories, and repositions architecture as an act of care.

Jake Bertram

Cutting International House