Studio 3
Nightingale Night School
Jeremy McLeod & Lola Digby-Diercks
Studio Description
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 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.
Studio Leaders
Jeremy McLeod is the managing director of Nightingale Housing and 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.
This studio will be assisted by Lola Digby-Diercks of Nightingale Housing and Breathe Architecture and Mark Ng and Renee Jacovides of Breathe Architecture.
Lola Digby-Diercks works in business development and strategy across both Nightingale Housing and Breathe Architecture. She works alongside Jeremy to instigate and deliver on projects, support current and future clients, purchasers, supporters, land owners and architects. Her further work at Breathe includes interiors and art direction.
TRAVEL: Week 2
ST1/03 Mondays 17:30-20:30 at Nightingale Housing Office, 6 Florence Street, Brunswick
ST2/03 Thursdays 17:30-20:30 at Nightingale Housing Office, 6 Florence Street, Brunswick
=== PLEASE NOTE: PLACES ARE LIMITED TO 12 STUDENTS ===
Prospective students will need to submit a 200 word statement explaining why they wish to undertake the studio and a sketch/graphic which represents what Nightingale means to them. Due by 10PM Friday 20 July to karen.burns@unimelb.edu.au and lola@breathe.com.au