With over 20 years of design experience working across sectors Kirsten’s key skill lies in designing site sensitive developments through the management of stakeholders and engagement with collaborators. Throughout her career Kirsten has developed projects and concepts that push boundaries and change mindsets.  

From the pioneering Murray Grove, which altered the global perception of how CLT should be used, to MultiPly, a carbon neutral timber pavilion for the V&A Museum which demonstrates how engineered timber structures can contribute to the circular economy, her work challenges the status quo. Kirsten has worked across sectors and countries recently she developed the visionary concept of Trenezia a zero carbon community of 1,600 homes and a cultural hub built over the lake in Bergen. 

 

Kirsten leads Waugh Thistleton's research projects she has recently overseen the delivery of The New Model Building, a system design guide utilising a low carbon engineered timber structure coupled with a non-combustible façade, demonstrating a way of building that responds to the challenge of meeting net zero carbon.