New Suburban Living

In Melbourne’s “Middle Suburbs,” where the housing stock is predominantly single-family homes, this project proposes an incremental redevelopment plan that allows greater density; large, shared outdoor spaces; and more diverse housing choices. 

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Ian Strange turns condemned suburban house into temporary gallery

For two days only, artist Ian Strange will transform a suburban home in Melbourne’s Richmond into a site-specific intervention and a gallery.

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Next21, Osaka

http://www.open-building.org/ob/next21.html A project that explores a new method for building urban housing, using an experimental infill system*, to accommodate varying lifestyles with reduced energy consumption. 

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“We drive to a house in Preston.. This place seems depressing.. it’s the californian bungalow in a cul-de-sac. If you’ve got a spare half a million, you could knock it down, and start rebuilding.”

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Australia's Opportunity to Unlock Medium Density Housing

Australian developments have largely consisted of low-rise and high-rise in recent times, leaving a potentially huge medium density market untapped.

“There is no question that in the right locations in the middle ring suburbs, there is opportunity for further medium density than what has (thus far) occurred.”  Urbis director Stuart McGurn

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Sydney, Melbourne houses in world’s top five most unaffordable: Demographia

https://www.domain.com.au/news/sydney-melbourne-houses-in-worlds-top-five-most-unaffordable-demographia-20160125-gmd7x2/

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“The single family house involves no spatial formations in the urban planning sense and it is also uneconomical because of its high individual costs, its high consumption of property and the sprawl it creates …”*

https://architectureau.com/articles/single-house-no-future/ *Birkhauser’s Floor Plan Manual Housing

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The garden city

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Preston, 1945