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Rehousing Conference
REHOUSING
U A L International Housing Conference, October 5 8, 2006
Urban Architecture Laboratory, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
This conference aims to examine recent transformations in the contexts surrounding housing in Australia and reconsider architectures involvement in, or contribution to the general provision of housing. Immigration, the ageing of the population and the transformation of household makeup have created enormous projected housing demand particularly in cities such as Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. These pressures lead to significant environmental threat to available land for housing in Australias fragile urban fringe. In response to this, government in Australia now promotes higher density housing at existing activity centres on redeveloped sites and restricts green-field housing development. It appears that the traditional small-scale, craft-orientated building practices that have characterised the Australian housing industry to date may not be able to meet the challenges these contemporary pressures create. New relationships between government and development for the provision of housing are occurring in response to these pressures. Do these new conditions create an opportunity for architectural design to make a broader contribution to general housing? Is architecture able to articulate a new relationship to housing and re-conceive its contribution in light of these transformations?
The re Housing conference is seeking responses to these issues in the form of actual dwelling design projects, as well as academic papers. Papers and projects will be presented alongside each other, and projects can be refereed if required by the contributor.
An exhibition of a selection of the presented projects will open the conference. This exhibition will host conference events and will be open to the public.
Timetable
Abstracts due April 28, 2006
Response to Abstracts by late May 2006
Full papers/completed projects due July 14th, 2006
Response to papers/ review of projects by mid august 2006
Revised papers/final projects due September 8th 2006
http://rehousing.rmit.edu.au/
U A L International Housing Conference, October 5 8, 2006
Urban Architecture Laboratory, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
This conference aims to examine recent transformations in the contexts surrounding housing in Australia and reconsider architectures involvement in, or contribution to the general provision of housing. Immigration, the ageing of the population and the transformation of household makeup have created enormous projected housing demand particularly in cities such as Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. These pressures lead to significant environmental threat to available land for housing in Australias fragile urban fringe. In response to this, government in Australia now promotes higher density housing at existing activity centres on redeveloped sites and restricts green-field housing development. It appears that the traditional small-scale, craft-orientated building practices that have characterised the Australian housing industry to date may not be able to meet the challenges these contemporary pressures create. New relationships between government and development for the provision of housing are occurring in response to these pressures. Do these new conditions create an opportunity for architectural design to make a broader contribution to general housing? Is architecture able to articulate a new relationship to housing and re-conceive its contribution in light of these transformations?
The re Housing conference is seeking responses to these issues in the form of actual dwelling design projects, as well as academic papers. Papers and projects will be presented alongside each other, and projects can be refereed if required by the contributor.
An exhibition of a selection of the presented projects will open the conference. This exhibition will host conference events and will be open to the public.
Timetable
Abstracts due April 28, 2006
Response to Abstracts by late May 2006
Full papers/completed projects due July 14th, 2006
Response to papers/ review of projects by mid august 2006
Revised papers/final projects due September 8th 2006
http://rehousing.rmit.edu.au/
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