William McGregor

With a Diploma in Building and a Bachelor of Design (Architecture), I have now completed my Master of Architecture — a journey that has strengthened both my creative thinking and technical ability. My background combines strong digital modelling and BIM documentation skills with hands-on construction experience, giving me a practical mindset and a deep understanding of how design ideas are realised in the built environment.

I approach architecture as a balance between imagination and constructability. I’m passionate about design that not only inspires but can be effectively communicated, coordinated, and built. Collaboration is central to my process — I value the opportunity to work closely with clients, consultants, and peers to achieve thoughtful, well-resolved outcomes.

My involvement in the Future Garden Exhibition Display for United Make (UDMK) expanded my understanding of design as a shared exploration, while receiving the BIM Professional Practice Award recognised my commitment to precision and innovation in digital project delivery.

I’m driven by a constant desire to learn and refine my skills — to keep evolving with new technologies, materials, and ideas. As I move forward in my architectural career, I aim to contribute to creative and forward-thinking design environments, bringing together design excellence, practical understanding, and a commitment to continual growth.

Vertical Village (Housing studio) East West Section

This project was focused on creating medium density housing from an existing warehouse in Kipling St, Cremorne. My project was centred around connecting 3 different living typologies and how their different lifestyles can form a community while also being able to be independent from each other.

Vertical Village (Housing studio) Kipling St render

The project explored the use of coloured building 1 which identifies the different living typologies but also represent the creative individuals located in the Cremorne area and create a powerful visual statement in the area.

Dal Zotto winery (East elevation)

The project was centred around redesigning the Dal zotto winery in the beautiful natural landscape of kings valley. The aim of my design was a subtle superstructure that netted and weaved around the existing buildings, a visual representation of part of the growing phase of grapes.

Data Matters (Internal perspective)

This studio focused on creating a data centre which also doubled as a civic centre in the heart of Melbourne CBD. My project aimed at creating floating or stacked boxes by utilizing the existing buildings structure. The floating boxes act as a reminder that data is always hanging around us. The floating boxes created a powerful visual in throughout the building, By doing this the data servers themselves can be hidden away amongst all the boxes while adding to the visual impact

Data Matters (Circulation Diagram)

My project took on the idea that everyday we interact with data and it is constantly giving us choices to interact or not and this gave the idea to create many circulation paths to specific spaces within the building so that ones own choice has a differing outcome to another person while they still may end up at the same space eventually their paths are different.

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.