April Lachal

Residential Regeneration

After extensive research on how to incorporate indigenous acknowledgment into my project I came to the blunt understanding that if it were up to the First Peoples nothing would be built here at all.  With this in mind I began developing my communal housing project to work towards minimizing its impact on the land.

Topography manipulation of the site aims to accentuate and reinstate the original natural landscape of Brunswick West creating the foundation for my communal housing project to incorporate a finely tuned synthesis of place, people, and plants.
This typology aims to comfortably accommodate its residents and enable ecological regeneration despite the ever-increasing turbulence of today’s climate extremes.

The tectonic adaptable construction methodology promotes inbuilt customization and personalization. This enables the residents to utilize the building in a passive working manner with the ability to regulate their ventilation, plantation, solar absorption, visual permeability, and rainwater management strategies. I believe these adaptable typologies will uphold a sense of belonging and control mitigating the austerity surrounding communal dwelling units bringing a new sense of freedom, modernization and convenience to densified dwelling typologies in the future.