ROAM Architects
A North Melbourne architecture practice that brings light, space and the garden back into older homes, alongside award-winning school work.
North Melbourne, VIC · In the network since 2026
- Google rating
- Established
- Combined experience
- 5.0
- 2014
- 50+
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North Melbourne studio
years across the two directors
Recognition
Lysaght Design Award, Winner
2022 · St Clare’s Primary School
Learning Environments Award, Winner
Association for Learning Environments 2019 · St Bernadette’s Primary School
Featured by The Local Project
2020 · Little Maggie, Yarraville
Why we introduce them
ROAM’s directors, Amanda Robinson and Rod Allan, each bring more than 25 years of experience from practices in Australia and the UK. They founded the studio in 2014 to pair strong design with disciplined delivery, so a project is not only well conceived but fully resolved, compliant and buildable.
Their homes are mostly renovations and extensions of older houses on tight inner-west sites. Little Maggie turned a single-fronted weatherboard cottage in Yarraville into a bright home that opens onto its garden, and Yarraville Lighthouse brought daylight into a house on a block around six metres wide. Little Maggie was featured by The Local Project, and Yarraville Lighthouse by Hunting for George.
The same rigour runs through their school work, which has won a Lysaght Design Award and an award from the Association for Learning Environments. For an owner, that means a team used to demanding briefs and careful delivery.
Chosen and introduced by the BuilderHQ team.
The practice
ROAM is a Melbourne/Narrm-based architecture studio designing spaces for people, place and purpose. We work across education, healthcare, residential and civic projects, partnering with clients to deliver sustainable, high-performance environments that support spark joy, wellbeing and everyday use.
ROAM acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation.
Selected work
How an introduction works
01Ask us
Tell us what your build needs. Two minutes, no account required.
02We introduce
We connect you with ROAM Architects directly, with a little context on your project.
03You take it from there
The relationship is yours. We take no commission and no cut.
No fee to be introduced, no obligation, and no detail shared without your say.
Work with ROAM Architects
Start with an introduction.
Ask us to connect you and we will make the introduction personally, with your project’s context attached.
