2026 Semester 1
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Kyle Aguas
This project questions the idea of multi-residential living as a compromise by investigating what spatial qualities contribute to wellbeing beyond consumerist notions of luxury. Central to the proposal is the “Service Matrix,” a consolidated wet-core that reduces domestic services to their essential functions and establishes a clear spatial hierarchy.
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Helen Vu
The project begins with two sets of conceptual grids: the 4.8m x 6.0m shared living and the 3.6m x 6.0m individual living. Within these guidelines, a room and a utility corridor are imposed and aligned linearly, resulting in an absolute modular unit typology. The utility corridor is 2.4 meters wide and connects the rooms.
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Tarn Techawatanasuk
Rather than treating density as a compromise, the design actively uses it to build community: anchored by a generous landscaped courtyard, communal spaces are scattered across every floor of each building as an in-between area of interior and exterior, offering residents a co-working space, adaptive movie room, communal kitchen and area for events that replace.
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Meg Higgs
This approach allows the apartments to accommodate a wide variety of living patterns: what would be a bedroom to one tenant may also function as another’s study, prayer room or extended dining room. Movable folding walls further push this idea of flexibility, enabling two or even three rooms to become one based on the needs of the tenant.
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Adam Ning
Inspired by a modular approach, homes can adapt over time through expandable layouts. Communal spaces are distributed throughout the development, creating opportunities for social connection.
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Angelia Zhu
Across the buildings, misalignments between window openings and corrugated steel joints produce moments of awkwardness that embrace the realities of contemporary construction -- this is echoed through the dramatically slanted awnings that hang from balcony parapets, the exposed rafters beneath tilted corrugated cladding boards that exhibit structural depth, and the flexible service roofs that also permit momentary occupancy.
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Sam Watts
Typical blocks of Melbourne ‘six pack flats’ are reimagined in the site context by abstracting and reconfiguring a spatial logic plagued by stagnant, developer centric attitudes. Externally, harsh fenced divisions that maximise title boundary usage are replaced by a series of fluid, permeable exterior spaces with varying spatial qualities on all sides. Internally, standardised ‘off the plan’ layouts are replaced by a highly adaptive framework that considers the use of the building beyond inception
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