The vision called for a cohesive masterplan that reorients buildings and movement patterns, restores significant heritage structures, and introduces new accommodation and public spaces that create a calm, coastal experience grounded in place.
Our process began with understanding Wadjemup’s layered narratives—environmental, cultural and historical. Extensive site observation, mapping of views, movement and climatic conditions, and consultation with heritage and landscape specialists set the tone for how new interventions should sit in relation to the historic quad, the lake edge and existing topography. Heritage buildings – the former Boys’ Reformatory and the Gus Ferguson Villas – are restored with care. New accommodation buildings adopt a low, recessive architectural language suited to the island’s coastal conditions.

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The renewed Lodge now feels more connected to both landscape and memory. The restored heritage buildings sit confidently alongside the new, forming a calm and cohesive ensemble around the pool and lake outlook. A sequence of public spaces—the courtyard, gelato kiosk, bar, restaurant and sunset terrace—creates a gentle drift from the town centre to the water’s edge. Together, these elements offer visitors an experience that is open, grounded and distinctly of Wadjemup: a place where the island’s stories, its climate and its easy rhythms come together.