Summa Studio is an architecture and design studio based in Tasmania / Lutrawita working across architecture, interiors and objects with a focus on creating considered, enduring and finely crafted work at all scales.

Approach

We take a holistic approach to design and believe spaces and objects are very much the sum of their parts, each affecting our experience of the whole. Our approach then endeavours to unify and look beyond individual components to ensure each choice—from structural to surface elements and the objects within contributes to a balanced, healthy, beautiful and functional whole.

We begin every project with deep listening to understand our clients' ambitions, budget, and needs. This collaborative foundation, paired with a rigorous analysis of site and context, ensures our final designs are both deeply personal and environmentally responsive.

We then communicate the iterative design process through sketches, models, imagery and digital visualisations to understand the spatial and material qualities of the project. We are inventive and progressive in our approach and love to collaborate.

Along the way, we assemble a project team that is tailored to the specific needs of the project, working with specialist consultants and building contractors to integrate advice without losing sight of the vision.

We continually research and refine our systems to ensure better ways of designing, making and building, understanding sustainability, enduring and healthy habitats are intrinsically linked.

Our key focuses

• Collaboration: We seek to work collaboratively with our clients, consultants and contractors towards the best outcome

• Design: Uplifting, beautiful and practical spaces and objects designed for people and place

• Performance - High-performance architecture and spaces using passive design principles that ensure comfort and operational efficiency.

• Sustainability: -Well-designed multifunctional spaces using materials that are robust, low-carbon and detailed specifically to endure.

• Budget -Working closely with our clients and contractors to understand and manage costs proactively with clear communication at every stage

• Detail - We are obsessed with craft across all scales; no detail is too small.

• Local - We champion local materials, makers, and suppliers to ground our projects in place.

Creating architecture and design is a deeply collaborative process requiring an open mind for best results. We’re fortunate to work alongside talented builders, craftspeople, engineers, suppliers and designers and most importantly, our clients, whose trust and imagination are key to a successful creative process.

Studio

Summa was established in 2025 and is led by Lachy Taylor, a registered Architect with a extensive background in architecture, building and furniture design/making. He has worked in architecture and design since 2018 with a number of Tasmanian firms and has extensive experience in residential and commercial architecture alongside experience working onsite with builders and in the workshop. This informs a detail-focused, practical and craft driven approach to practice at all scales. Lachy is passionate about how quality design and craft can create beautiful, considered and sustainable environments for us to dwell in.