Torquay · Jan Juc · Anglesea · Aireys Inlet · Lorne
You've found your place on the Surf Coast.
Let's design the home that goes with it.
A long-established, architect-led practice on the Surf Coast — direct access to Jeremy, navigate your home in 3D before you build, designed to your budget.
Materials, details and moments — three decades of coastal craft
The practice
Good Surf Coast architecture is designed to nestle into the landscape and integrate into the streetscape over time; to minimise environmental impact whilst providing spaces that maximise your lifestyle. Your investment in architectural design will reward you many times over.
SurfCoast Architecture is a Torquay-based practice designing new homes, renovations and rebuilds across the Surf Coast, from the bushland behind Bells Beach to the steep coastal blocks of Apollo Bay.
Selected work
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Step inside the homes — from the Abode TV feature on Jeremy's own Bells Beach Bush House to flying tours through three decades of Surf Coast work.
"I engage directly with my clients to realise their brief and deliver design solutions that are innovative in their conception, responsive to the coastal context, and that minimise their impact on the environment."Dr Jeremy Ham — Director, SurfCoast Architecture
Recognition in print
SurfCoast Architecture projects are published in Best Coastal Homes, Best Abodes and Australia's Best Houses #1, and profiled in The Age's Domain — including the "House of Funk", Jeremy's own home in the bush behind Bells Beach.
Why clients choose us
Designing on the Surf Coast since 1997 — the sites, the planning overlays, the coastal conditions, the councils and their quirks. Every block here has constraints; we find the design solution others miss.
Jeremy works personally on every project from first sketch to final inspection. No project managers, no hand-offs to juniors — one architect, fully accountable.
You see and walk through your home in three dimensions before anything is built, so there are no surprises on site.
We design to your budget, not around it. Good architecture should pay for itself in liveability, energy savings and resale value.
Sustainability here means passive solar planning, salt-resistant materials, and designs that work with the landscape you chose to live in.
We listen carefully to how you actually live before pen touches paper. The result is a home designed around you — never a template.
How it works
A no-obligation conversation about your site, your brief and what's possible — no jargon, no hard sell.
Creative design responses to your site and budget, modelled in 3D so you can walk through them before committing.
We navigate Surf Coast Shire overlays, setbacks and approvals — the local knowledge that gets permits through.
Detailed drawings and specifications that builders can price accurately and build from with confidence.
Consultancy during the construction stage — protecting your interests until the home is yours.
Client words
The architect
Jeremy has lived, surfed and raised his family on the Surf Coast since 1995, and visited since the 1970s. A registered architect (ARBV, 1997) and award-winning academic, he knows this coastline's builders, blocks, councils and planning quirks inside out.
Over more than two decades he has built the practice on hard projects: the bushland at Bells Beach, major renovations at Anglesea, the tightly planned Aireys Inlet town centre, and the steep coastal blocks around Apollo Bay.
The aim is the same every time: design that's inventive, shaped by its site, and light on the planet, shown clearly in 3D at every stage.
Start the conversation
No jargon, no hard sell — just an honest discussion about what's possible for your home on the Surf Coast. Every project starts with a free, no-obligation consultation.
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Tell us about your site, your brief and your budget — Jeremy reads and responds to every enquiry personally, usually within one business day.
Open the enquiry formBuying on the coast? We also offer pre-purchase inspections — know what a block or house can become before you commit.
