Melbourne projects: Affordable Housing

 Summary

Join ADP as we embark on a short lecture series to find out how local, interstate and international groups are tackling the crisis for affordable housing. Each session we will hear from new speakers to get new perspectives and encourage conversations around sustainability and creative problem-solving. 

This week we hear from Toby Dean (Nightingale Housing), in the Head of Community role. Nightingale Housing is a not-for-profit organisation building apartments that are socially, financially and environmentally sustainable.

We will also hear from Joachim Quino Holland, Director at Fieldwork. At Fieldwork, they design for the city as the site from which to build a more equitable and environmentally conscious world. Fieldwork believes in an active architecture that both shapes and is shaped by social, political, aesthetic, emotional and economic forces. They practice architecture as a living form that is agile and enduring, poetic and pragmatic, precise and optimistic: sensitive to the evolving needs of its inhabitants within a shifting local and global context.

Date: Thursday 29 February 2024

Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm 

Zoom Link: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/83428400181

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Toby Dean, Nightingale Housing

Featured Project: Nightingale ParkLife, Part of The Village

The Village is a collection of six neighbouring buildings, each designed by a different award-winning architect using the social, environmental and financial sustainability principles of the Nightingale model. These principles are embedded in every building, and across the street.

Austin Maynard Architects’ ParkLife overlooks Bulleke-bek Park to the north, freely accessible from Duckett Street at the south via a breezy walkway through the building’s ground floor. This development is one of the most sustainable in Australia with a NatHERS rating of 9.1 stars. The distinctive building exterior is clad in highly insulated white steel, with hooks, grilles and rods allowing vegetation to proliferate. Intentional communal spaces include spacious outdoor areas between apartments on each level, and a rooftop featuring a community amphitheatre with city views and productive gardens.

Quino Holland, Fieldwork

Featured Project: 38 Albermarle St, Kensington 

Designed for Assemble - the first project delivered via the ‘Assemble Model’, a new pathway to home ownership. Home buyers, not property investors, are at the heart of the Assemble Model, to deliver projects where good design, community and sustainability go hand in hand.

This project is situated on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation.

Residents are connected through communal spaces on the upper and ground floors: places for work, eating and leisure, together. A mixed-use ground floor encourages connection between residents and the neighbourhood, with retail space tenancies informed by the needs and desires of the local community.