Team
We are designers and strategists dedicated to deliver successful and sustainable environments.
e8urban is a specialist consultancy based in Sydney providing an integrated suite of services in master planning, urban design and landscape architecture. With a team that draws on more than 20 years of experience shaping impactful projects across Australia, South-East Asia, and the UK, we have a proven track record of translating high-level strategic vision into value-driven and achievable outcomes.
Joe Rowling
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Joe is a highly accomplished designer and strategist known for his pragmatic creativity and non-dogmatic design approach. With 23 years of experience in urban design, master planning, and place-making across Europe, Asia, and Australia, he brings invaluable expertise to our projects.
He founded e8urban in 2015 to champion a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. His ethos is built on the conviction that contemporary city complexities require unified expertise to create truly successful and sustainable places.
Joe is a confident and proven project strategist who excels at positioning and delivering all aspects of complex master plans within urban, rural, metropolitan, and regional contexts. His extensive experience includes acting as Principal Urban Designer on high-profile projects, including Gurner Avenue Austral, which won an Australian Urban Design Award for Leadership, Research & Advocacy.
He possesses a unique ability to navigate intricate relationships in large-scale precincts where major government agencies interface and overlap due to infrastructure and land use changes. This ensures seamless project delivery and positive results for all stakeholders.
Joe is a passionate advocate for the design industry, demonstrated by his strong local reputation and his active support for the newly formed Urban Design Association in New South Wales. Through this involvement, he contributes to the professional dialogue and helps raise the standard of urban design across the industry and our studio.
Tamasine Scott
DIRECTOR
Tamasine is an accomplished and award-winning Landscape Architect whose experience spans the design and delivery of city-shaping master plans, urban visions, educational campuses, and landmark headquarters. Her expertise covers the full project lifecycle, from initial concept and strategy development through to detail design and construction.
Her two decades with Grant Associates UK, working across diverse international geographies, cultivated an extensive portfolio and a collaborative ethos that is now central to our studio’s work. This wealth of global knowledge allows e8urban to apply international best practice, tailored for the Australian context, a focus that is further leveraged through her role as a member of the NSW State Design Review Panel for the Government Architect.
With a focus on creating inspirational and ecologically rich landscapes, Tamasine's work blends innovative, sustainable, and culturally responsive design. She specialises in experiential design that celebrates the unique signature and natural processes of each site, ensuring every design is both globally informed and locally appropriate, sustainable, and climate-responsive.
As a designer and project lead, her work features projects like the relocation of Bristol Zoo in the UK, and destinations such as the iconic Cloud Forest Dome at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. She has also delivered the design and implementation of Jaguar Land Rover's 30-hectare R&D Campus in the UK, alongside award-winning public domain projects like Singapore's multi-layered Funan Mall.
Her passionate approach brings invaluable energy, richness and integrity to our studio and our work.
Javier Arcila
SENIOR URBAN DESIGNER
Javier's combination of design sophistication, technical skill, and project leadership makes him a cornerstone of our team. He is a highly skilled Urban Designer who brings over 8 years of dedicated experience, and is instrumental in the development of our master plans and urban strategies.
With a steadfast focus on creating sustainable and functional urban environments through parametric urban design, his technical and project management capabilities are crucial for overseeing complex consultant coordination, particularly managing the intricate interfaces between the public realm and engineering disciplines. Javier’s expertise in solar access, climatic, and pedestrian integration modelling is fundamental to the success of our large-scale precincts, ensuring the designs we produce perform optimally under real-world conditions.
His extensive portfolio includes; the design and technical documentation of significant rezoning and subdivision applications in both greenfield and urban environments; the strategic design of public realm for key urban spaces within award winning developments; and exceptional graphical skills that produce high-quality visuals and compelling animations that aid engagement with our project clients and stakeholders.
Agustin Poch
ARCHITECTURE AND COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN
Agustin is an award winning urban designer that brings a vital technical edge to our team. He specialises in advanced computational design and 3D modelling. This proficiency, built upon a strong architectural foundation, significantly enhances the quality of our proposals and our thinking.
He leverages his skills to rigorously test and visualise complex concepts, ensuring that the designs we deliver are always grounded in sophisticated analysis. Agustin is proficient in a variety of software, which allows us to create detailed assessments and immersive environments for our clients to explore.
He has a compassionate yet technical approach to design, which leads us to explore and develop innovative solutions through emerging technologies. His expertise further supports our project delivery by assisting with the collection and analysis of key socio-economic, geographical, and performance data, essential for informing our land-use planning and master plans.