Our collective community fabric
knits together our place on this earth.
About White+Kleyn
We believe in the importance of Community, Family, and all the good stuff that comes from Home - the name WhiteKleyn is an amalgamation of the founding partners Kelie & Max's mother's maiden names.
“Believing in the importance of family, it is a way of honoring the names we don’t get to use that have meant so much for our lives.”
- Kelie and Max.
Established in 2019, WhiteKleyn Studio is a bold, young creative architectural practice with combined experience spanning over 30 years. Kelie Roach and Maximillian Rampertshammer have established a practice that embeds sustainable design and practices into their processes to deliver the best possible outcomes for their clients, the public and the environment.
Our studio’s work thus far has been predominantly in BIM Management, Project support and Documentation in character. Residential work, including single dwelling residences, renovations and multi-dwelling developments is emerging. Kelie and Max have extensive experience in the commercial, education and healthcare sectors as well across all sizes of projects.
What We Believe
We are passionate about the LAND we occupy and the greater WORLD around us. Through innovative Building Information Management Technology and logical problem solving, we bring the built and natural environments together.
We work in collaboration with other Architects and industry professionals to deliver the very best advice and assist in the delivery of complex projects. These partnerships invariably ensure that design and construction information is more streamlined, more accurate and better able to assist in construction and development goals.
Our Team have considered and deep experience balancing the many facets of architectural delivery. To that end, our combined experience on larger scale works and collaborative design process has become a key component of accomplishing excellence.
Our Team
There would be no WhiteKleyn Studio if it weren't for the people you are looking at now. We asked our hard working team to tell us a little bit about themselves.
Let’s meet the people behind our work!
“Architecture that heals and connects us to this land is a shared mindset.”
Kelie Roach
Architect
As a founding director of WKS, Kelie has been a key driver in the firm’s continued growth and success. Her experience and reputation for delivering a portfolio of technically acclaimed, multi-award-winning projects is recognized within the profession and the building industry working on residential, education, sports, infrastructure and commercial projects.
In recent times Kelie has been part of the BIM delivery and Documentation teams for Campbelltown Hospital, Footscray PPP and National Resilience Centre. Kelie is highly Revit proficient and has proven herself to be a valuable asset to projects with complex delivery processes and evolved data deliverables. She can develop and manage the workflows to integrate the BIM models in a full BIM 3D environment.
“Architecture is about creating places and spaces for people”
Maximillian Rampertshammer
Architect
Maximillian is a Registered Architect with 20years of experience across a variety of significant and complex typologies.
Max is experienced in leading teams to produce construction documentation and consultant coordination to deliver fully integrated digital models and the very best construction advice through this data rich representation.
An Architect, Health Planner and Design Technology Leader, Max is an expert in facility database information having worked with dRofus for over 10 years. Max has been a part of the successful delivery of some of the nation’s most significant construction projects in Australia and overseas. From Hospital PPPs to complex retail and cultural forms, Max has successfully completed work both locally in Australia and Globally.
"I love seeing People and Design come together.”
Lotte Hempfling
Operations Manager & Designer
Hailing from the Netherlands, Lotte has wide experience in project management, planning and Interior Styling. She fills the role of Operations manager and Designer and joined our team in 2023 to advance positive changes in industry. Lotte responds to the design challenges faced today believing that she can be part of creating the best Design possible while keeping the People you design for in mind. People + Design = creating
Lotte is not only passionate about creating but is all about the beauty of creation itself. She is not only an active young woman who loves to go for walks on the beach and drink coffees, but she’s also a mother to a toddler who keeps her highly entertained and on her toes.
WKS would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and practice and pay our respects to elders, past, present and future. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the 50,000+ years of continuous engagement of this land by Aboriginal and Torres Strait culture. The journey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their knowledge of this land is incredibly rich – its importance to the future of our country should never be underestimated.