Studio 01

Nightingale Night School

Ali Galbraith and Jeremy McLeod

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.

Nightingale Housing 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.

Nightingale Housing exists to revolutionise the way we live together. Students will learn how to interrogate the financial feasibility of developments and have the opportunity to learn in depth the process of delivering triple bottom line housing at cost. We will explore pushing the boundaries of multi-residential architectural design to create meaningful contributions to the city and exceptional spaces for living in.

Studio Outcome

Each student will be given the tools to undertake a Nightingale project 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 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 various 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 leading Melbourne Architects and Nightingale Housing to deliver carbon neutral housing at cost. At present, there are numerous Nightingale Housing projects in progress, including Nightingale Village, consisting of six buildings by six different architects in Brunswick, Nightingale Ballarat and Nightingale Fremantle.

This studio will be assisted by Ali Galbraith, a designer at Breathe Architecture.

Readings & References

• Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser, 2012
• Soft City, David Sim, 2019
• No Place Like Home, Peter Mares, 2009
• The Human Scale, 2016 (Movie)
• Urbanised, 2011 (Movie)
• Podcast - Housing the Australian Nation with Peter Mares https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/peter-mares/12207050
• How to Kill a City, Peter Mowskowitz 2018
• How Do We Solve The Housing Crisis? New Community-Led Models For Planning And Architecture, Deborah Talbot, Forbes, May 17th 2018 https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahtalbot/2018/05/17/how-do-we-solve-the-housing-crisis-new-community-led-models-for-planning-and-architecture/
• Collaborative Housing, University of Technology Sydney https://www.collaborativehousing.org.au

Schedule 17:30-20:30 Mondays and Thursdays

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