HOUSING

Master Of Architecture Housing

Studio Leaders

JOE AGIUS

VICENTE CASTRO

RAMIN JAHROMI

HELEN KUO

FELIPE MIRANDA

CRISTIAN ROJAS

Housing affordability is one of the most significant issues affecting the health of our nation as it progresses into its new urban future. Macro-economic factors concerning home ownership have resulted in the current housing affordability crisis. This presents built environment professionals with the unique opportunity to come up with alternative housing models that could challenge the status quo.

The Built-To-Rent (BTR) housing model has been touted as a housing tenure that could remedy the housing crisis by providing a viable alternative to the predominant Build-To-Sell (BTS) housing tenure. Unlike BTS housing, BTR housing is a housing tenure that is held in single ownership by a housing provider that has a commercial desire to keep its renters happy. This ensures that its residents are able to reside in their housing development for longer which benefits the owner in having to constantly search for new tenants.

The focus of the Housing graduation studio this year was to interrogate and question the tenure principles attached to BTR housing to come up with an architectural proposition. The site was Precinct 75, an area of approximately 1.5 hectares containing mostly industrial buildings with frontages along Mary and Edith Streets in St Peters, Sydney.