Village Morphology

Something familiar or a strange neighbour?

Q- Studio presents Village Morphology proposes a co-housing and mixed use development for vacant site in Brunswick. In particular, students will research international and visit local, co-housing and affordable housing projects whilst also looking at other historical forms of dwelling that sit outside of western cannon. Participants will be challenged to intertwine the intensi ed programming associated with international co-housing models with the local vernacular and non standard  gure grounds to create a new model of living.

The resultant work is not a disregard for the ‘Australian dream’ but the missing evolution to it. Free-standing, single-family dwellings—oft-portrayed as environmentally destructive and poorly designed—represent a majority of new homes built today. It is into this environment that students will be asked to introduce new kinds of housing types that
far better address contemporary issues of gender equality, affordability, sustainability and an overall improved urban environment yet remain un alienating in its context

By inserting denser architectural models with open systems that intertwine and interact with each other and the local fabric, participants will encounter the idea that there could exist an acyclic pattern to the urban network the intention here is not Metabolism. Rather the studio is an exploration of a responsive architecture that re ects the complexity of the contemporary city and its people as well as one that negotiates the increasing desire for alternate models of living. Lessons learnt from Jane Jacobs and her contemporary Jan Gehl and artists such as Larrisa Fassler; psychogeographic combined quantitative and qualitative mapping will be to a successful model.