Future Homes 2020
Student-created designs for apartment buildings, replicable in middle suburban Melbourne environments. The competition encouraged students to demonstrate how to rethink the way we live in our established suburbs.
With the population of Victoria projected to grow significantly in coming decades, the pressure on housing is likely to remain a key challenge for the State.
While Melbourne’s major activity centres have seen dramatic increases in density over the last two decades, and outer suburban growth remains a part of the housing mix, it is increasingly clear that the middle suburbs have an important part to play in housing our growing population. This, however, must be done carefully. We must ensure that any changes to established residential areas result in increased public and residential amenity. This is where design fits in.
IBA Melbourne, in partnership with The Department of Environment Land Water and Planning, the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and 5 key higher education partners (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Monash University, Swinburne University, Deakin University and The University of Melbourne), announced the Future Homes Student Competition in 2020. This Competition was the Student iteration of the two phase Future Homes Project currently being undertaken by DELWP and OVGA, with the industry competition culminating in October.
The Student Competition invited our future designers to prepare exemplar designs for apartment buildings that will be replicable in middle suburban Melbourne environments. With less constraints than the industry competition, students were encouraged to demonstrate how to rethink the way we live in our established suburbs.
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The brief for the student competition was intentionally loosened-up from the professional architects’ competition, to provoke interrogation and foster innovation. Challenging current planning provisions was encouraged, if well justified in order to encourage broader thinking about the future of living in apartment buildings in established suburbs and identify constraints to better outcomes.
Accordingly, the jury saw a wide range of approaches and building typologies and had to compare schemes with very different parameters, focus areas and site configurations. In considering the competition entries, the jury was interested in not just how well a particular approach had been developed, but also how relevant the approach was in informing innovation in established suburbs housing. Where projects challenged the brief and planning provisions, the solutions had to be flexible and adaptable and the benefits significant.
Three prize winners and three commendations were chosen. While each proposition was judged on its merits, the prize winners and commendations represent very different approaches to the brief, site and context.
Key issues explored in the competition include the potential for developments to build flexibly to the site boundary, communal aspects of living, adaptability of dwellings and embracing landscape as outdoor living spaces. The jury noted that each winning or commended scheme explored the role of communal space to supplement the amenity of private dwellings.
Overall, the jury is impressed with the high standard of the competition entries and the level of students’ exploration of new suburban living.
Shortlist
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04
Madeleine Archer, Ben Thorp, Lauren Ho
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
FIRST PRIZE -
31
Neuman Chow Kah Heng
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
SECOND PRIZE -
21
Leyuan Yu
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
THIRD PRIZE -
06
Vibhuti Vinay Pathare, Tejaswini Sridharan, Mario Yohanes Rinaldy
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
COMMENDATION -
41
Chenyu Xiong, Kairu Liu, Wanshan Li, Yang Liu
Monash Art, Design and Architecture MADA
COMMENDATION -
48
Arsen Sarkisian, Paraskevi Triantis, Amy Rodda, Megan Murray
Swinburne University of Technology
COMMENDATION
Submissions
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01
Javen Mao, Frances Ng, Cedric Chua
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
02
Fangyi Miao
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
03
Leonardo Vincent, Sze Kei Lai, Cynthia Senangsyah
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
05
Andrew MacKinnon, Madalyn Laslett
UoM, Melbourne School of Design -
07
Zhongwei Xiang, Yilan Xie
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
08
Pal Parekh, Katherine Burns, Christine Chen, Ognen Slavkovski, Gexin Liu, Kristian Grief
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
09
Isabel Roden, Qiuhao Guo, Perri Sparnon, Andy Wilson
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
10
Zhe Li, Marnie Henderson, Hugh Matthews, Ellen Boor, Dirk du Toit
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
11
Marc McHenry, Morna Hu, Kate Donaldson, Jing Li, Christopher Ames, Bronwen Main
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
12
Yuan Liang, Maia Guppy-Hall, Adam Legg, Brittany Devlin, Jinrui Liu
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
13
Zhuoqing Li
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
14
Yanting Yue
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
15
Xiangjian Zou
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
16
Shan Jin
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
17
Rupert Reed
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
18
Qiankun Shen
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
19
Mike Lam Wen Zien
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
20
Mo Chen
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
22
Khue Nguyen
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
23
Wang Jun
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
24
Jade Layton
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
25
Huaqing Tao
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
26
Amber Young
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
27
Ann Lim
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
28
Zhiyi Zhu
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
29
Siyu Zhao
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
30
Rosanna Lang
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
32
Mukhtar Rezaei
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
33
Mei Jun Lau
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
34
Melvin Chan
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
35
Kaidi Wang
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
36
Kun Feng
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
37
Kyle Brodie
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
38
Chengqian Wang
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
39
Chieng Jin Lo
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
40
Gerhard Wang
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne -
42
Jackson Voo Sheng Kai, Zedine Ly
Monash Art, Design and Architecture MADA -
43
Andrew Fraser, David Blake, Matthew James, Ross Thomas, James Walker
Monash Art, Design and Architecture MADA -
44
Levina Larissa, Quoc Bao La, Oliver Dymarson
Monash Art, Design and Architecture MADA -
45
Rebecca Williams, Ashley Hanrahan, Noma Furrukh, Katherine Hwang
Monash Art, Design and Architecture MADA -
46
Sebastian Lucas-Lely, Trent van Elewoud
Monash Art, Design and Architecture MADA -
47
Emma Barrett, Nathan Wright
Swinburne University of Technology