Studio HC

HarmonioUS

Australia currently stands at an intersection of change with a population growth that has grown more than 50% since 1984. Faced with the challenges of an aging population and recent reforms to social policy around disability, this project envisions an all-encompassing habitat as opposed to the provision of housing.

HarmonioUS

Team

Students

  • Hugo Chan

  • Rina Chan

  • Luen Samonte

  • Ramin Shojaie

Supervisors

  • Rob Brown | Casey Brown Architecture

  • Carly Martin | Casey Brown Architecture

  • Dr. Dijana Alic | UNSW Built Environment

Project Statement

Australia currently stands at an intersection of change with a population growth that has grown more than 50% since 1984. Faced with the challenges of an aging population and recent reforms to social policy around disability, this project envisions a habitat as opposed to the provision of housing. 

Apart from responding to the recent push to create models of affordable housing by maximizing the efficiency of space and attending to the means of construction and ease of duplication, this project also considers the notion of an affordable habitat. Beyond the scale of a house, in which many have questioned "what vision of life and happiness should an affordable home be proposing?" This same question must be asked in the scale of a habitat. According to Ricardo Hausmann "a habitat is a node in a multiplicity of overlapping networks - physical, economic and social." Thus, the habitat envisioned through this project takes into account the balance between affordable housing ,commercial, social and environmental outcomes. 

Masterplan

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Neighbourhoods

Socio-petal and socio-fugal spaces, desire for wayfinding and connection between the steep terrain of the site. 

Detailed Design Resolution

Construction

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Project Journal

UNSW Student Submission for the National Disability Insurance Scheme Housing Competition. University of New South Wales, Faculty of Built Environment, Sydney, Australia In Collaboration with: Rina Chan, Luen Samonte, Ramin Shojaie. With Thanks To: Rob Brown & Carly Martin (Casey Brown Architects)