Won in national competition, the Pier Pavilion is a permanent civic structure on Sydney Harbour that transforms over half a million recycled Sydney Rock Oyster shells, otherwise destined for landfill, into a bespoke Oyster Terrazzo. Developed through a year of experimentation, this terrazzo combines whole shells with recycled aggregates, producing a luminous material whose variegated surface reveals the intricate forms of each shell. The Pavilion’s material language ties it to place, evoking the ecology of the harbour where these oysters have flourished for millennia, and reconnecting architecture to traditions of craft and ornament through sustainable reuse. At the other end of the material spectrum, REDUX, exhibited at the 2025 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, reinterprets asbestos. Once a ubiquitous but hazardous medium for construction, the project transforms the material into a new, carbon-negative composite certified safe for architectural application. Produced in collaboration with partners Asbeter and Benedetta Pompili Studio, the project transforms a symbol of industrial harm into one of renewal, demonstrating how harmful materials can be reimagined within architectural culture.