Design Choices | Shiel Street Community Housing
On-demand CPD
1 Formal CPD Points
Overview
Though a balance of rational and resident prioritised design strategies, Shiel Street Community Housing verifies the notion that quality housing can be understated, affordable and delightful. This CPD session will focus on design strategies employed for this award-winning project. More broadly, it intends to demonstrate how this as a case study carries lessons for other housing projects to deliver rational and resident-prioritised outcomes. This session will enable architects and designers to apply more informed strategies for medium density housing to their own practice.
NSCA 2021 Performance Criteria
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
- PC3: Apply principles of project planning, considering implications for Country, environmental sustainability, communities, stakeholders and project costs.
- PC13: Be able to identify and apply strategies, programming and processes for documentation through all project stages to facilitate project delivery, as appropriate to selected procurement processes.
PROJECT INITIATION AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
- PC18: Be able to apply creative imagination, design precedents, research, emergent knowledge and critical evaluation in formulating and refining concept design options, including the exploration of three dimensional form and spatial quality.
- PC24: Be able to prepare and analyse project development options in response to a project brief – its objectives, budget, user intent and built purpose, risk and timeframes, including environmental sustainability considerations.
- PC25: Be able to draw on knowledge from the history and theory of architecture as part of preliminary design research and when developing the conceptual design.
- PC26: Be able to undertake site, cultural and contextual analysis as part of preliminary design research. PC27: Understand how to embed the knowledge, worldviews and perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, shared through engagement processes, into the conceptual design in a meaningful, respectful and appropriate way.
- PC30: Be able to explore options for siting a project, including integrating information and analysis of relevant cultural, social and economic factors.
- PC31: Be able to identify, analyse and integrate information relevant to environmental sustainability – such as energy and water consumption, resources depletion, waste, embodied carbon and carbon emissions – over the lifecycle of a project.
DETAILED DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION
- PC39: Be able to integrate the material selection, structural and construction systems established in the conceptual design into the detailed design and documentation.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify and explain the design strategies used in Shiel St Community Housing including designing to support diverse communities
- Identify and explain the approach to siting the Shiel St Community Housing project, and how this benefits residents and the broader community
- Apply insights from the Shiel St Community Housing case study to inform sustainable strategies for other multi residential housing projects, including approaches to thermal performance, passive ventilation and material selection.
Speaker
Clare Cousins established Melbourne practice, Clare Cousins Architects, in 2005. Based on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation, the studio is engaged in projects large and small including housing, workplace, and cultural projects. Each project is an opportunity to explore what we value; a nuanced sense of place, embedded with a responsibility to our environment. Our projects endure and evolve, responsive to the individual or community they serve.
Actively involved in the broader design community, Clare is a Life Fellow and Past National President of the Australian Institute of Architects.
Price
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Non-members: $149
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