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A working notebook — index 001

Tayná
Fischer

Building Designer based in Sydney. Working notebook for residential documentation, secondary dwellings, and CDC approvals across NSW.

Architectural drawings, laptop and a flat white on a linen-covered desk by a window in Sydney winter morning light.
Fig. 01 — Desk, 07:4233.86° S

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Index 001Secondary dwellings, Greater SydneyCDC documentation in progressSantos → SydneyOpen PDFs: 5Flat white №3Reading — A Pattern LanguageListening — rain on the studio windowRevit, layers, morning lightAvailable for projectsQuietly maintained since 2025Index 001Secondary dwellings, Greater SydneyCDC documentation in progressSantos → SydneyOpen PDFs: 5Flat white №3Reading — A Pattern LanguageListening — rain on the studio windowRevit, layers, morning lightAvailable for projectsQuietly maintained since 2025
§ 02 — Currently

A snapshot of the desk this week — small, ongoing, true.

Working on

  • —Frenchs Forest — CDC Custom Studio + Granny Flat
  • —Willoughby × 2 — approvals and re-design coordination
  • —Concord, Avalon, Curl Curl — detailed plans in progress
  • —Elanora Heights — approaching lodgement
  • —West Pennant Hills — initial set underway

Moodboard

  • —Secondary dwellings that sit quietly on their sites
  • —Approval drawings that hold up under certifier scrutiny
  • —Sydney suburbs, one block at a time
  • —The week a project finally clicks into place

Obsessions

  • —Checklist discipline across 8 live jobs
  • —The gap between 50/105 and 105/105
  • —Flat whites between redlines
  • —Suburbs I now know better than I expected

Last updated · Sydney, 8 projects in motion

§ 03 — Selected work

One project, quietly in motion.

Frenchs Forest — Granny Flat + Studio

Project 01

Frenchs Forest

Granny Flat + Studio

Early-stage approvals, coordination and systems. A quiet secondary dwelling sitting low under the eucalypts — drawn, redrawn, and worked through one PDF at a time.

Location
Sydney, NSW
Year
2025 — current
Scope
Approvals · Documentation
§ 04 — Spatial notes

A living archive of light, desks, transit and other small architectures.

Current desk situation

On My DeskTue · 10:14

Current desk situation

Frenchs Forest drawings. Five PDFs open. Coffee cooling faster than expected.

Sydney light around 5pm

Sydney NotesMon · 17:06

Sydney light around 5pm

Something cinematic about office towers catching late afternoon winter light. The city goes soft for fifteen minutes.

Current InspirationSun

Lived-in geometry

Plans that leave room for furniture, weather, and a slightly chaotic morning. The good kind of unfinished.

Airport work mode

Travel FragmentsLast week

Airport work mode

Open laptop. Compressed workflow. Architecture brain in transit.

A café table that accidentally became an office

Sydney NotesFri · 14:30

A café table that accidentally became an office

Good light. Enough space. Unexpectedly productive — stayed three hours.

On My DeskThu

Layer naming, again

Spent the morning standardising layers. Boring work, quietly satisfying. Future me will thank present me.

Current InspirationWed

Architecture as documentation

The drawing isn't the building. But it's the only place the whole building exists at once.

Walking along the Thames on a grey London afternoon, City skyline and Millennium Bridge in the distance.
Fig. 02 — A walk home
§ 05 — About

Tayná Fischer is a Brazilian-trained Building Designer based in Sydney — working across CDC residential documentation, secondary dwellings, and the quiet systems that hold a project together.

Born in Brazil, where she completed a Bachelor of Architecture and Urbanism, now three years into Sydney residential practice — currently pursuing DBP Low Rise accreditation through that experience.

I work in Revit. I think in layers. I care about the drawing that makes sense at 7am when a builder opens it on site.

This space is a working notebook — part portfolio, part archive, part thinking out loud. Layer names. Morning light. The small structural decisions nobody sees but everyone lives inside.

Based
Sydney, AU
From
Santos, Brazil
Practice
Building Design · CDC Documentation
Qualification
B.Arch & Urbanism (Brazil) · DBP Low Rise — in progress
Specialisation
Secondary Dwellings · CDC Approvals
Tools
Revit · BIM · NatHERS
Currently
Available for projects
§ 06 — Connect

Work.
Collaborations.
Conversations.

I work with builders, developers and homeowners on residential documentation — granny flats, secondary dwellings, CDC submissions and the coordination that sits between design intent and approval.

If you're a builder looking for a documentation partner, or a homeowner trying to make sense of what's actually approvable on your block — I'm the right person to talk to.

Always open to a slow email about architecture, systems, or somewhere worth working from.

Currently taking on new projects in Greater Sydney.