In recent years, various state governments and universities have sought to re-imagine suburban housing for tomorrow. This is both an acknowledgement of the primacy of the suburb in defining Australian cities, and a recognition of the limited suitability of current patterns of development.
Here, we present three winners from competitions in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, and a scheme from a collaborative research project in Western Australia. While all are proposed for different sites with different contexts, they share similar aims: to increase density, to improve sustainability, to be more affordable and to increase the diversity of home types available.
Each project adopts a different approach: building along the fenceline, respecting existing trees, constructing a village of tiny homes, and creating a multi-residential block. All are beautiful, intelligent and respectful of
