The house. A family home on a 752.51 m² lot that falls about 3 m from the existing pool at the rear down to the street. Downstairs, the kitchen and living/dining open north to the rear terrace, with a media room, laundry, powder room and a master bedroom with ensuite and walk-in robe. Upstairs, three bedrooms, a bathroom and a living/study open onto a rear balcony with a timber batten privacy screen. A carport sits at the front. Face brick, stacked stone and timber cladding under a 20° Colorbond roof.

Brief. Turn a building designer's client-approved design into a set of Development Application drawings for The Hills Shire Council, including shadow diagrams for the winter solstice.

My role. Modelled the house and its sloping site in ArchiCAD from the design drawings and site survey, then produced the full set: site and roof plan with setbacks and survey levels, ground and first floor plans with door and window schedules, four elevations, two sections, and 9 am, noon and 3 pm shadow diagrams for 21 June.

The house. A split-level home on a 595.92 m² lot. An open lounge, dining and kitchen opens to a covered alfresco, with a study by the entry and an ensuite and walk-in robe to the main bedroom. A carport sits over a 10,000-litre rainwater tank, with a small metal shed in the rear corner. Weathertex cladding and face brick under a Lysaght Custom Orb roof, with solar panels over the alfresco.

Brief. Turn an architect's client-approved developed design into a combined planning and building approval set under the NSW Housing Code, and show the house meets the CDC setbacks and controls.

My role. Modelled the house in ArchiCAD from the architect's design drawings, then produced every sheet: site plan with a CDC compliance table, floor plan, four elevations, two sections with wall, floor and roof build-ups, and door and window schedules.

The building. A two-storey café beside a sporting field. Ground-floor dining, a commercial kitchen, store and accessible WC open through full-width bi-fold doors to a timber-decked alfresco behind vertical timber screening. Upstairs, a second dining room overlooks a double-height void behind two-storey feature glazing. Face brick under a 12° Colorbond gable roof.

Brief. Re-create a commercial café from a client's concept PDF and produce a developed design set to AS 1100.301, ready to issue to a quantity surveyor and a structural engineer.

My role. Set up a CAD template — layers, line weights, text and dimension styles, hatches and title block — then rebuilt the building in ArchiCAD from the PDFs and produced the full set, including a 1:50 section through the kitchen and dining area.