To Chris Gilbert, director of design at Melbourne architecture firm Archier, and his wife Miranda Louey, who looks after the firm’s media and communications, it was a true passion project. Confronted by the city’s skyrocketing property prices, and with sustainability foremost on the agenda, the pair pooled resources with two like-minded couples – Liam Wallis and Katya Crema, and Peter Steele and Sarah Kearney. The result? Award-winning Davison Collaborative – three supremely functional, eco-friendly and visually alluring townhouse homes built on a single compact block in the inner-city suburb of Brunswick.
For Chris and Miranda, who live in one of
