Je Yen Tan

The Australian suburb has become a space characterised by inherited associations that define a domestic lifestyle, creating rigid distinctions between public and private, the individual and the shared. These distinctions enclose a static system of inhabitation surrounded by the resultant tensions of dynamic societal changes, made inaccessible to nonconformists of these preconceptions. The suburban landscape is thus detached from the concerns of the wider environment. The project interrogates conventional views of domestic living through a consideration of programmatic hierarchies, placing them in dialogue with contemporary social values of residential architecture. Tensions between the programmatically defined and ambiguous, adjacent and separate will be explored through a typological approach in order to generate diverse and accessible forms of living.