Design Brief
Abstract Separate houses make up for the largest dwelling type in Australia, making up 72.9% of all building types5. Within Perth(WA) itself, approximately 80-85% are separate houses. AUDRC lists one of the main factors to be market dominance.The main reason most households prefer separate houses attributes to the fact that housing acts as the largest investment most people make. Preference is selected on a product which has a better value for their investment.6 |Dwelling structure type within Australia.
Image source: ABS, Census of Population and Housing 1991, 2016.
|Dwelling tenure type within Australia.
Image source: Census of Population and Housing 1991, 2016.
4 ”Census of Population and Housing: Reflecting Australia - Stories from the Census, 2016,” ABS, accessed March 02, 2021,https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/ Lookup/2071.0main+features22016. 6 Anthony Duckworth-Smith, “Infill in the Sprawling City” (lecture, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, July 30, 2019). 5
Comparison of census studies from 1991 and 2016 reveals there is a increasing amount of households which are owned with mortgage or are rented, whereas there fewer households are owning it outright. This pattern co-relates to the affordability of housing and currently contributes as a factor of a major housing crisis within Australia. Despite current preference for separate houses, the underlying fact of its decreasing affodability remains. A potential solution to this may be moving the linear economy, in which majority of the construction sector is in, into a circular one. Value can be added into a separate house in terms of social, economical and environmentally.
