with Joost Bakker
A prototype for constructing zero-waste, habitat creating buildings using straw and hemp
timber production, while sequestering many times more carbon-dioxide in just 3 months and restoring farm topsoils.
Imagine if all construction timbers in Australia were grown in a way that regenerated degraded farm soils,
improved livestock health, provided biodiversity habitat for endangered species and shaped resilient,
beautiful landscapes that stitched together bioregional communities.
The Making Of Material explores this possibility through a collection of furniture pieces made from agroforestry timber,
designed by Bronwen Main in collaboration with Mark Tuckey
and documentary short film by Grace Moore, that captures both process and philosophy.
Photography: Lilli Waters
Watch the documentary below
Imagine if all construction timbers in Australia were grown in a way that regenerated degraded farm soils,
improved livestock health, provided biodiversity habitat for endangered species and shaped resilient,
beautiful landscapes that stitched together bioregional communities.
The Making Of Material explores this possibility through a collection of furniture pieces made from agroforestry timber,
designed by Bronwen Main in collaboration with Mark Tuckey
and documentary short film by Grace Moore, that captures both process and philosophy.
Photography: Lilli Waters
Watch the documentary below
Imagine if all construction timbers in Australia were grown in a way that regenerated degraded farm soils,
improved livestock health, provided biodiversity habitat for endangered species and shaped resilient,
beautiful landscapes that stitched together bioregional communities.
The Making Of Material explores this possibility through a collection of furniture pieces made from agroforestry timber,
designed by Bronwen Main in collaboration with Mark Tuckey
and documentary short film by Grace Moore, that captures both process and philosophy.
Photography: Lilli Waters
Watch the documentary below
Constructed from hemp and biochar, this temporary public artwork functioned as a large-scale living sculpture.
The civic work explored material responses to light, climate and atmosphere.
The biochar actively absorbed urban pollution for the duration of the installation.
Photography: Michael Pham
Constructed from hemp and biochar, this temporary public artwork functioned as a large-scale living sculpture.
The civic work explored material responses to light, climate and atmosphere.
The biochar actively absorbed urban pollution for the duration of the installation.
Photography: Michael Pham
Constructed from hemp and biochar, this temporary public artwork functioned as a large-scale living sculpture.
The civic work explored material responses to light, climate and atmosphere.
The biochar actively absorbed urban pollution for the duration of the installation.
Photography: Michael Pham
We test, seed and grow regenerative ideas through transdisciplinary projects across art, architecture, design, landscape, education and strategic masterplanning.
Collaborative.
Nature-based.
Living.
We support communities to adapt to uncertain futures and thrive in complexity by integrating their goals with ecological thinking, transforming strategy into masterplans and projects that build real resilience, create zero-waste, sequester carbon, regenerate habitat.
In each project we search for trophic cascades - small interventions that catalyse cascading benefits to the community and environment.
Our team is agile, adaptive and responsive to the unique opportunities within each project, place, biome and client group.
Our projects range from regenerative learning environments, homes and masterplans to public artworks, flat-pack construction systems, new biomaterials and bespoke designs.
We innovate with regenerative biomaterials including hemp, straw, bamboo and biochar, treating material practice as a platform for carbon storage, habitat creation, air-quality filtering, lifecycle design and climate-responsive performance.
Our projects are not only resilient but get better through adaptation, care and ecological reciprocity, creating cascading benefits for communities, local economies and ecosystems over time.
MAIN&FRANK acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters, skies and culture. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and to all First Nations peoples whose knowledge systems continue to shape ecological understanding, care for Country and regenerative practice.
frank@mainfrank.com
bronwen@mainfrank.com
MAIN&FRANK
ABN 19 655 157 038
REG# 600395
Woodleigh Institute
Joost Bakker
Greenhousebyjoost
The Green School
IBUKU
NBCUniversal
High Note Northcote
City of Melbourne
Mark Tuckey
Melbourne Design Week
Linden New Art
Grace Moore
Art for Takayna 2025
Linden New Art, Design Fringe 2024
Green Design Show, 2024
Lectures
RMIT University 2024 & 2025 - Regenerative Architecture
Monash Univeristy 2025 - Navigating the Landscape: Insights into Site & Context
Publications
Green Magazine - Mainstays - May 2026
Archigram Melbourne - The Second Ecology: Ecosystems Above the City. Darcy Jane Resch.
Log 49 - Jacques Rancière: The Time of Landscape. Interview with Frank Burridge and Jacques Rancière. 2020.