Erin Collins
Senior Associate | ArchitectHayball
Erin is an award-winning architect, practicing as a Senior Associate at Hayball. She draws on a broad range of project experience gained across several typologies and sectors including large complex multi-residential and mixed-use developments, social housing, student accommodation and bespoke single dwellings as well as large and complex urban renewal projects.
Combining technical knowledge with creativity to bring a positive experience to end users and the public drives all Erin’s work. She takes pride in effectively and efficiently achieving high quality design outcomes that are also commercially viable. An influential negotiator in the management of complex consultant and stakeholder groups, Erin relishes the challenge of maximising project opportunities to produce positive feasibility and planning outcomes and designs that exhibit a focused understanding of form, space and aesthetic.
Erin’s field of interest in Property and Development extends beyond architecture, and she continuously works toward developing her knowledge and experience so that she can be a valued expert in this area.
Erin is passionate about mentoring and is a Mentor on the Property Council of Australia Mentoring Program. Within Hayball, Erin is single-handedly responsible for reviving and re-launching the GROW mentoring program, developing, supporting and educating upcoming industry leaders within Hayball. She is an active mentor, providing a supportive framework that fosters career development in younger and emerging architects within the practice.
“Architecture is all about creative problem solving. Providing elegant solutions in an efficient and effective way is fulfilling to me personally and provides meaningful outcomes for the client and end user.”