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U A L International Housing Conference, October 5 8, 2006
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U A L International Housing Conference, October 5 8, 2006
Urban Architecture Laboratory, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Overview
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?
Find more: http://www.rehousing.rmit.edu.au/index.html
U A L International Housing Conference, October 5 8, 2006
Urban Architecture Laboratory, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Overview
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?
Find more: http://www.rehousing.rmit.edu.au/index.html
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