Addressing the need to generate social capital in an area that has been subject to historical, place-based disadvantage, Wrap-Around Housing explores how genuine diversity in housing can allow residents to thrive and forge a brighter future. Sitting at the heart of a former public housing estate in Claymore, New South Wales, my project proposes a hybridised medium-density housing model that can become a tool for positive change in the short-term, as well lay the groundwork for delivering high-quality built form outcomes in the long-term through its potential replication at different scales within varying contexts.
Mat-Manor Neighbourhood
Comprising four buildings ranging from two to five storeys, the site sits at a core junction of pedestrian and vehicular thoroughfare. Buildings are strategically sited to frame the pedestrian experience, as well as adjacent educational facilities and social services, as a way to use the project to become a beacon for the community.
Sectional Perspective defining Domesticity bound by Mixed-Use
In response to the site’s significant slope, the project integrates the landscape into the built form design through the hybridisation of mat and manor building typologies enabling open air corridors to puncture buildings with a series of defined public, shared and private thresholds and pulling the ground condition and its interactivity vertically up through the mixed use precinct.
Material and Programmatic Relationships
View of the site’s arrival, detailing the intersection between the community centre and library, and private and affordable housing above. In programming the lower floors to community amenity, the space seeks to encourage connection and knowledge exchange in an area characterised by its educational disadvantage and the impact this has on its youth.
Variations of Dwelling Plans
Dwelling plans address different family compositions with specific consideration towards flexibility, affordability and intergenerational connection in response to Claymore’s demographic make-up.
Nadine Freijah, Mat-Manor Neighbourhood
Nadine Freijah, Sectional Perspective defining Domesticity bound by Mixed-Use
Nadine Freijah, Material and Programmatic Relationships
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.