Passionate about art, people, and nature, Beatriz Marchiori is the name behind Instant Design, an architectural firm based on the beautiful Sunshine Coast, Queensland. With a Bachelor’s in Architecture and Urban Design, and a Degree in Applied Computer Graphics, Beatriz is a registered architect in Queensland and also in Brazil, from where she moved in a few years ago.
Having over 20 years of experience in the industry, Beatriz was responsible for designing quite a few new dwellings and renovations. Working for well-known developers in Brazil, she designed multi-residential buildings, as well as offices and retail stores. Since she has a dual qualification, she also worked as a town planner, coordinating 5 master plan revisions and collaborating with 7 others, as a consultant for local city councils in her homeland.
Before coming to Australia, Beatriz was a professor at the Federal University of Parana, one of the most prestigious tertiary institutions in Brazil, teaching architecture and urban design. Having a Ph.D. in Geography, with an emphasis in Landscape and Environmental Analysis, she produced a thesis on legal mechanisms for the protection of water resources within urban areas, being a researcher on this theme.
Recently, she launched an initiative called “The Green Home Movement” which aims to increase awareness on themes such as green building, eco-design, and bioclimatic architecture. As the principal architect at Instant Design, Beatriz believes an architect’s mission is to help transform the world into a better place, more beautiful, more human, and more sustainable.