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Nightingale Night School

Jeremy McLeod, Ali Whelan and Jonas Nutter

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 in the building or impact on the environment and local communities.

The Nightingale Model aims to provide housing for Melbourne’s rapidly growing population in carbon neutral, well-connected, community-driven apartments – all delivered without the involvement of property 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. This studio is an opportunity to learn in depth the Nightingale Housing 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.

Students will be taught how to run financial feasibility studies on project sites and gain unique insights into the interaction between architectural design and other disciplines involved in the procurement process such as development managers, financiers and community housing providers.

Studio Outcomes

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 of their choosing as a prototype of their vision of the future urban housing.

Studio Leader

Jeremy McLeod is the managing director of Nightingale Housing and founding director of multi-award winning architecture studio, Breathe Architecture.

Breathe is 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 project architects of The Commons, Nightingale 1, Nightingale Station, Nightingale Laneway, Skye House and Wurru wurru biik housing projects in Brunswick.

Since joining Breathe in 2019, Ali has worked as the design lead on a wide range of projects including multi-residential, commercial, hospitality and strategic planning.

Ali is a big picture thinker who enjoys collaborating with others. Her capacity for design, her efficiency, her speed and her confidence in communication has led her to

a prominent role leading the design team. Ali specialises in Concept design, developing the conceptual framework and working with clients to deliver on their project aspirations. She has a strong understanding of Development Feasibility and Urban Design, working across a range of scales and typologies to prepare strategic masterplans and feasibility studies.

Ali is the Design Lead at Breathe Architecture and was the design lead on Nightingale Ballarat, Nightingale Bowden and Nightingale Wurru wurru biik.

This studio will be assisted by Jonas Nutter from 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-housin g-crisis-new-community-led-models-for-planning-and-architecture/ Collaborative Housing, University of Technology Sydney https://www.collaborativehousing.org.au

Schedule:
Monday 6:15pm-9:15pm in MSD 139
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Thursday 6:15pm-9:15pm in MSD 139

Off-Site Activity:
Nightingale Village, Nightingale 1 tour, Heller Street, Cairo Apartments

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