top of page
YEAR 1
YEAR 1
YEAR 1
YEAR 1
SOCIAL DESIGN X SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Carlton's sustainability principles
LANEWAYS
Location: Carlton, Melbourne, Australia
University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Design (Architecture)
Year 2, Semester 2 (2021)
(Project selected for MSDx Summer 2021)
Laneways is a sustainable housing community that embodies the spiritual essence of MacArthur Square, Carlton, into its design parameters with the changing porous nature of Elm trees during the summer and winter, the housing project plays on the changing nature based on occupants preference of individuality and privacy in a clustered neighborhood.
The integration of living walls as green walls helps to demarcate the unit's individuality while also creating social opportunities for engagement and exchange. The walls offer a degree of privacy under the controlled measures of the occupants of the type of plants they use and the location. Over time, the walls become filled with life as older generations grow and transfer their responsibilities
Existing Landscape
Using the character of trees change of state during different seasons as a medium of the visual porosity across the neighborhood and how it provides for the visual ambiguity for residents' experience
Human Reaction
Using the character of trees change of state during different seasons as a medium of the visual porosity across the neighborhood and how it provides for the visual ambiguity for residents' experience
Sustainable Design & Social Design
Design consideration for spatial flexibility to address the changing needs of the people over time
Laneway (Daytime)
Laneway (Nightime)
Project takeaway
Although the project successfully captured the intended narrative of growing alongside the landscape over time, it is limited by its potentials of building envelope treatment that can further reinforce the inside-outside connection. This could be done through a different use of materiality that allows visual permeability or openings such as windows that are flexible in controlling and balancing porosity vs. privacy in a clustered living arrangement.
bottom of page