03/08/2026
🏘✍ If you have a steep block on the Northern Beaches, you already know most architects hesitate. Jo Gillies and the team at Archisoul Architects have spent nearly 30 years designing extraordinary homes on exactly the kind of sites others walk away from.
✔ Steep slopes
✔ Heritage overlays
✔Complex Council requirements
✔ Sensitive additions to Federation bungalows
✔ Dual occupancy and Class 2 duplex design
✔ Knockdown rebuilds
✔ Large-scale renovations and extensions
✔ New build designs
But what makes an Archisoul home truly different goes beyond technical expertise. Jo's design philosophy is rooted in Sacred Geometry and biomimetic principles — the art of applying the same proportional laws found throughout the natural world to the built environment. The Golden Mean. The Ancient Cubit. The ratios encoded in a nautilus shell, a leaf, a coastline. These are the same principles that make the Parthenon feel timeless, that make certain spaces instinctively feel right before you can explain why.
Jo applies them to every home she designs — which is why Archisoul clients consistently describe walking into their finished home and feeling something shift. The light feels right. The proportions feel right. The space feels like it was made for them. Because in a very real sense, guided by the patterns of nature itself, it was.
Jo is one of a small number of architects in NSW to hold Class 2 registration under the Design and Building Practitioners Act — qualifying Archisoul to design and oversee multi-storey residential buildings, duplexes, and complex alterations to heritage-listed properties. In 2014, Jo presented at TEDx Sydney on design philosophy. In 2022, an Archisoul heritage restoration in Manly was featured in House and Garden magazine.
If you have a project others have said is too hard, too steep, too constrained, or too heritage-listed — that is exactly where Archisoul does their best work.
Message us for a free Dream Discovery Call with Jo and the team. Spaces are limited for 2026/27.
