Semester 2 2017 Thesis 5
Nightingale Night School
Jeremy McLeod with Lola Digby Doiercks & Mark Ng
Studio Outline:
The status quo development model is aimed at delivering buildings with maximum financial yields rather than focusing on the people who will live there or their impact on the environment and local communities.
The Nightingale Model aims to provide housing for Melbourne’s rapidly growing population in well-connected, community-driven, medium density apartments – all delivered to people through means outside of the existing paradigm of developers, marketers and real estate agents to make them more socially, environmentally and economically sustainable.
This studio will explore in depth the process of architect-led development that Breathe Architecture has researched and practiced over the past 10 years, while pushing the boundaries of multi-residential architectural design to create meaningful contributions to the city and exceptional spaces for living in.
Studio Leaders
JEREMY MCLEOD is the founding director of Breathe Architecture, a team of dedicated architects that have built a reputation for delivering high quality design and sustainable architecture at all scales. Breathe Architecture has recently been focused on sustainable urbanisation and how to deliver more affordable urban housing to Melbournians.
BREATHE were the instigators of the The Commons housing project in Brunswick and now are collaborating with other Melbourne Architects to deliver the Nightingale Model. Nightingale is intended to be an open source housing model led by Architects.
Learning Outcomes:
Each student will be given the tools to undertake a Nightingale development and use these as a foundation to design in detail a medium density apartment building on a real site in Melbourne as a prototype of their vision of the future of urban housing.
ST1/05 Monday 6:15pm - 9:15pm, MSD Room 240
ST2/05 Thursday 6:15pm - 9:15pm, MSD Room 240