Architecture That Supports Life
We design productive, responsible, and innovative built environments for wellbeing.
Designing inhabitable micro-architectures, productive landscapes, and regenerative environments that support wellbeing, biodiversity, learning, and social connection.
What is Infra-Architecture?
Infra-Architecture Lab is a design and research practice based in Sydney, Australia.
We work at the intersection of architecture, infrastructure, ecology, and fabrication to develop environments that do more than occupy space. Our projects produce resources, support biodiversity, improve wellbeing, and create new forms of public life.
From inhabitable furniture and micro-architectures to productive landscapes and regenerative urban systems, we explore how design can become an active participant in the environments it inhabits.
What We Do
Micro-Architectures
Spaces for focus, learning, gathering, and retreat.
Chamber No.1 · Commons · Atelier
Productive Landscapes
Furniture and environments that integrate biodiversity and ecological performance.
Bio-Scape Bench · Wild Futures
Research & Innovation
Applied research that transforms emerging ideas into deployable systems.
Material innovation, digital fabrication, environmental systems, AI-enabled ecological infrastructure.
Design & Advisory
Strategic support for institutions, developers, cultural organisations, schools, airports, and hospitality projects.
Why We Exist
The built environment is one of the largest consumers of energy, materials, water, and land. We believe architecture can move beyond minimising harm and begin actively producing environmental, social, and cultural value.
Our work explores how spaces can become productive—supporting biodiversity, improving wellbeing, creating opportunities for learning, and strengthening connections between people and place.
Dr Rafael Luna
Director
Dr Rafael Luna is Director of the Infra-Architecture Lab and Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney.
His work explores productive architecture, biodiversity infrastructure, climate-responsive design, and resource-generating urban systems.
He received a Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in Architecture from the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland.
His work has been exhibited internationally including the Venice Biennale, Seoul Biennale, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He was awarded the Architectural League Prize and has collaborated with leading international design practices including Toyo Ito, Jean Nouvel, and KPF.
