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Location
Preston, VIC
Builder
Balmain & Co
Collaborators
MAB
T.C.L
Photographer
Derek Swalwell
Right size housing for a climate crisis. Right size housing for a housing crisis.
Enter, the Teilhaus. (German for ‘part of a house’.)
Small footprint terrace housing ranging in size from 27m2 – 32m2, on the ground floor of Nightingale Preston. These row houses are a familiar typology — they have a front fence, a front gate, veranda to the street, a fold in their fences form a stoop to sit and perch and chat to passing neighbours. These rows of terraces offer a density of doors on the street, bringing activity, vitality and safety. Importantly, each of these houses are only a fraction of the size of a one-bedroom dwelling, a fraction of the carbon and a fraction of the cost. These homes were sold via priority ballot to means tested first home buyers for $280K.
These homes formed a narrow bridge from a lifetime of renting into a future of housing security. This is the good stuff. This is when necessity drives innovation, drives a future different from the past.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Nightingale Preston will stand. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.
Right size housing for a climate crisis. Right size housing for a housing crisis.
Enter, the Teilhaus. (German for ‘part of a house’.)
Small footprint terrace housing ranging in size from 27m2 – 32m2, on the ground floor of Nightingale Preston. These row houses are a familiar typology — they have a front fence, a front gate, veranda to the street, a fold in their fences form a stoop to sit and perch and chat to passing neighbours. These rows of terraces offer a density of doors on the street, bringing activity, vitality and safety. Importantly, each of these houses are only a fraction of the size of a one-bedroom dwelling, a fraction of the carbon and a fraction of the cost. These homes were sold via priority ballot to means tested first home buyers for $280K.
These homes formed a narrow bridge from a lifetime of renting into a future of housing security. This is the good stuff. This is when necessity drives innovation, drives a future different from the past.
Location
Preston, VIC
Builder
Balmain & Co
Collaborators
MAB
T.C.L
Photographer
Derek Swalwell
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Nightingale Preston will stand. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Breathe acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Breathe stands. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.
