Australian based filmmaker and photographer drawn to documenting architecture and the built environment.

Australian based filmmaker and photographer drawn to documenting architecture and the built environment.

Dan Preston is an Australian filmmaker and photographer drawn to documenting the built environment. He aims to convey the aspirations of architects and designers, revealing their intentions in his photographic process and cinematic aesthetic, resulting in the documentation of award-winning projects featured locally and internationally.

His film and photography services encompass every aspect of pre and post-production, including editing, color grading, graphics, and sound design.


Clients

Press

Architecture Australia, Houses, Green, ArchDaily, Broadsheet, The Local Project, Est Living, Thisispaper, March Studio - Making, Architecture, Material & Process, Kerstin Thompson Architects Encompassing People and Place, Abitare, Type 7, Vogue Living

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, Traditional Custodians of the land where we work, and we pay our respects to their Elders.

Memo  /  Formwork

Mori House

Aires Mateus + MAArchitects + Neometro

Architect: Aires Mateus + MAArchitects + Neometro

Location: Brisbane, Australia

Client: The Local Project

Published: The Local Project

The design concept really was from Aires Mateus himself. Other architects and people have talked about his work being ruins of the future and I think this house here really has those bones of that.

He had these very strong principles about the form, the layout, the scale, the power of the walls and the openings. Even though we pushed him a few times we really came back to see his views of how he saw the world and how he saw this house to be.

The basis of the crucifix works well and whilst it doesn't have a formal entry and most people come through the back door or through the kitchen door, which is a very crucial part of this house because the kitchen is always producing food, breakfast, lunch and dinner when we're down here and very much around the family meal table is where we spend most of our time.

We like to build things for longevity and whilst I look at this house and yes it probably has a fairly high carbon footprint. But the idea here is that it requires no maintenance, we'll be here for a long time and I think we need to evaluate that in our buildings as to how long and how much maintenance a building requires over its lifetime to really measure the correct carbon footprint.

— Geoff Proven, Design Director, Neo Metro