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 Robert Sakula (Ash Sakula), Founding Partner and a Civic Trust Awards judge, a RIBA Competitions Advisor and an RIBA Awards jury chair. He has taught and lectured at schools in Britain, as well as in Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Milan, Portland, Chongqing and Melbourne. He is a member of four design review panels and a RIBA Awards Jury Chair.
We will also hear from Tricia Patel (Pollard Thomas Edwards) an equity partner and a design workshop leader who is renowned for delivering large-scale, award-winning residential-led regen projects. Tricia places a commitment to working with communities at the heart of her approach, pairing years of design experience with deep-dive consultation.
Date: Thursday 7 March 2024
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Zoom Link: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/83428400181
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Robert Sakula, Ash Sakula
Featured Project: Phoenix [in progress]
The Phoenix is a proposed development of a 7.9 hectare brownfield site within the South Downs National Park, brought forward by Human Nature, a campaigning development company, working with some of the UK’s leading architects, designers and engineers. It seeks to turn the imperatives of the climate and natural emergencies into opportunities for better design, better placemaking and ultimately healthier and better living.
Planned to prioritise people over cars, constructed primarily in sustainable timber, powered by renewable energy and designed to encourage a culture of sharing, it represents a new and regenerative way to make a place, build a community and create a productive and circular local economy. Ash Sakula are one of many collaborators on the Phoenix project.
Tricia Patel, Pollard Thomas Edwards
Featured Project: Dover Court
At Dover Court in Islington we were able to increase green space by re-claiming large areas of unloved concrete and building the majority of homes on garage sites. In the end, we delivered 70 new homes – covering a wide range of house types and sizes - along with a community centre at the base of an existing tower, as well as a revitalised public realm - improving the open spaces, pedestrian routes and lighting to fashion a safe and welcoming journey home for all residents. And a brand new ball court too. We drew upon wide-ranging skills – in co-design, retrofit and re-use, multigenerational planning, and landscape-led placemaking – to repair and improve the 1960s-built estate, and to blend it more effectively into its wider Georgian setting.
About Affordable Housing Lecture series
Join ADP as we embark on a 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.
To find out more details please review the weekly sessions. There's no need to register, just open the zoom link on the night to join in the presentation.
If you have any questions you can contact engagement@adp.uq.edu.au.