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.
Thirty years of designing beautiful, sustainable, cost-effective homes on this coastline — every project led personally by architect Dr Jeremy Ham.
Materials, details and moments — three decades of coastal craft
The practice
Good Surf Coast architecture contributes to the landscape rather than imposing on it, helps families live more sustainably, and is so specific to its people that it could not belong to anyone else — or sit anywhere else.
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 dramatic coastal slopes 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.
"What I offer my clients is not a style. It is a process of genuine inquiry — into their site, their brief, their life — and a commitment to finding the design that is most specifically right for them. That is the work that endures."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 — including the eight-page "House of Funk" feature.
"House of Funk" — published feature
"Funky Composition" — published featureWhy 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.
The latest CAD technology means you see and understand your home in three dimensions before a single thing is built — no surprises, no guesswork.
We design to your budget, not around it. Good architecture should pay for itself in liveability, energy savings and resale value.
Sustainability isn't a checkbox — it's passive solar planning, salt-resistant materials and designs that respect 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
The Surf Coast is not just where Jeremy works. It's where he has lived, surfed and raised his family since 1995 — and visited since the 1970s. A registered architect with the ARBV since 1997, he brings the rigour of an award-winning academic and the practical knowledge of someone who knows this coastline's builders, blocks, councils and planning quirks inside out.
Over more than two decades he has built the practice through difficult, complex projects — in the bushland at Bells Beach, major renovations at Anglesea, within the tightly planned Aireys Inlet town centre, and on the dramatic coastal slopes of Apollo Bay.
In every project the aim is the same: innovative in design, responsive to the site, and environmental in minimising impact on the planet — communicated clearly in 3D, every step of the way.
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.
Prefer to write?
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.
