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This is about making our cities better places to live. To facilitating an enriching and adaptive way of living which is inherently urban but which also connects us to the natural and to each other. It is about embracing diversity, delivering housing affordability, and doing so in a sustainable and regenerative way. It is about enhancing what our suburbs are capable of being and developing a model that is highly attractive to the market to ensure that such positive change is scalable to see a paradigm shift in how our city operates.

This proposal for A Neighbourhood Tapestry is a visionary model to achieve this:

• an interconnected landscaped open space network that can be scaledand expanded upon

• breaking the apartment form into smaller elements to reduce visualbulk, provide improved outlook and solar access, and to maximisedeployability through being widely adaptable to different siteconfigurations

• a modular spatial framework designed to provide interchangeability ofdwelling types and other programme

• an efficient, modular construction approach that uses repetitionand standardisation to drive down cost and optimise constructiontimeframes and is able to take full advantage of the advantages ofprefabrication,

• a regenerative approach to sustainable design with an aim for zerocarbon or better, and using a performative landscape to cool oururban environment, to slow, filter, and store rainwater for re-use, andresponding to our biophilic connection with nature

• creating the basis for inclusive and diverse communities with multi-generational living facilitated by accessible shared space and flexible,high quality homes with access to a variety of shared services andfacilities, potentially including immediately on site

• an exemplar apartment model that is well suited to a number ofmodels for procurement and development to enable the model to bewidely deployed through many and diverse hands

• a set of design strategies that drive affordability outcomes to lowerthe entry point to the housing market, making high quality housingaffordable for more people.

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Responsiveness and replicationBy breaking the apartment form into smaller units, this approach is better able to respond and adapt to different sites (orientation, proportion, size) and their contexts (built height, scale, mass, local planning constraints). This adaptability, via a kit of parts approach, translates into greater deployability - largely due to a greater physical flexibility, but also through being well suited to a number of procurement and tenure strategies.

Porosity and the Space BetweenBy taking the often windowless central hallway typical of the apartment form and inverting it into an open space network, people are able to instead move through a shared landscaped space to arrive home. By shifting the focus from solely the built form to the ‘space between’, an urban environment is able to be created where we are connected to each other and to nature. This is a place for many generations to co-exist and thrive, whether you are actually moving through, sitting somewhere, or looking out over the space from your balcony. In this open and natural setting, we make eye contact, we acknowledge our shared connections, our humanity.

Exploding the BlockBy breaking the block into smaller elements, a finer grain of built form is able to be achieved, with the following outcomes for the neighbourhood including, diminished visual bulk, views across the site and views to sky are opened up between the buildings, overlooking is reduced as individual dwellings are offered multiple aspects of outlook, overshadowing issues are more easily preventable as built form can be more easily shifted around to respond to specific conditions.

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Dwellings as Kit of parts - adaptability through modularityThe apartments in this proposal are designed on a 300mm planning grid with 100mm internal wall zones and consistent room sizing. The proportions of the dwellings enable them to be interchangeable as well as to be laid out in various configurations across a site in response to specific conditions. This maximises deployability across suburban sites.

Flexible Homes for LifeThere are a number of strategies to provide adaptability over time. Dual-key dwellings are an excellent way to provide for multi-generational living. They can also facilitate expansion / contraction of occupants, or provide for live / work flexibility.cvzzvInternal operable walls and convertible furniture are also other strategies that enable spaces to be reconfigured.

Modular componentryThe buildings across the site are able to be constructed from standardised modular components. This drives cost efficiency and enables prefabrication, quick assembly, and construction quality - in turn assisting to deliver durable and affordable high quality dwellings. Modular assembly can also support disassembly and adjustment over time, supporting long-life, loose-fit buildings that are responsive to changing conditions and demands.

Half Basement Scheme - The Pedestrianised Ground Plane

In order to create a free flowing and fully accessible ground plane, the required car parking has been placed within a half-basement, with the following advantages:

• Pedestrianised open space network (no vehicular clash) designed to create an optimal public realm,rather than being determined by vehicle access design requirements.

• Less expensive than a full basement with a depth of approx 1.7m requiring less excavation, open sidesreduce costs of retention (projection above ground 1.1m), and open air avoids need for mechanicalventilation.

• Does not count typically as a storey in the Planning Scheme when calculating maximum numberof storeys but frees up the ground floor to be more intensively utilised without any space beingdedicated to vehicular circulation or parking. This enhances the viability of a project by enabling moredevelopable area at ground level.

• Requires a shorter, shallower ramp with less visual impact on the suburban streetscape

• Day lit and naturally ventilated with open sides and sunken gardens or bermed landscape at sides.This creates a better environment, raising thequality of arrival and avoids the cost and energyconsumption of mechanical ventilation

• Can be easily converted into otheraccommodation including moredwellings, workspace, communalspace, gym and otherfacilities.

Sustainable Design & Integrating the Natural

Built form, location, and height have been driven by shaping the landscaped open space network on site - the architecture is seen as a carrier for natural elements to colonise at all levels, including deep soil canopy trees, planters, green roofs and communal food production. This is a biophilic response and provides for a performative landscape in terms of seasonal shading, evaporative cooling, and the collection, filtration, and storage of rainwater and potentially grey water. Capacity for extensive on site rainwater / greywater storage is provided at lower ground level - 20,000 litres - with biotopic filtering.

The scheme has been optimised for modular pre-fabricated construction and CLT is seen as a positive option in terms of embodied energy and carbon sequestration - although this is not mandated in terms of limiting market take-up of the model. The design incorporates passive design principles utilising thermal mass. The envelope is planned with sufficient depth for excellent insulation, and multi-aspect dwellings provide excellent cross ventilation. Solar panels and solar hot water are envisaged for the upper roofs, possibly as building integrated systems.

The Ripple Effect and ScalabilityBy being porous and open ended these strategies can also facilitate change beyond any singular site. Firstly this framework can be plugged into by further development downstream - promoting organic growth. This could be via other developing parties consolidating neighbouring sites, neighbours self-mobilising, to build upon what has happened, or a completed site could expand into neighbouring sites either via a developing party or by the community within a site choosing to expand.

Meeting a NeedThe central proposition behind the Future Homes competition is that if we are to sustainably grow as a city, we need an alternative to the binary of ‘sprawl’ or ‘tall’. We need to look to our extensive suburbs where the majority of our citizens choose to live. We need to look at this not only through the lens of urban intensification, but urban ‘enrichment’ - the unlocking of possibilities, the enabling of dimensions life and opportunity that may not currently be present or readily accessible within our current suburban context.

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DAYLIGHTNATURAL VENTILATION MECHANICAL HEAT RECOVERY

VENTILATION (MHRV)

URBAN HEAT ISLAND

To reduce heat gain and intensification of heat island effect across the site, High Solar Reflectance Index (SRI) surface materials are specified for all unshaded hard-scaping elements (>34 SRI), roof materials (>64 SRI) and shading structures (>64 SRI).

Living architectural elements are also included to assist in natural shading & cooling across the development. This includes deciduous climbing vegetation integrated with arbours to private open space and planter boxes to help protect solar gain through more exposed windows.

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Each dwelling is designed to provide passive cross-ventilation, and to ensure a high indoor air quality is maintained even when windows are closed.

Optimal shading depths, window to wall ratio, glazing specifications, and room depths for each orientation to enhance the quality of interior living environments. Fixed shading reveals to windows, and a range of other strategies are deployed to help provide seasonal shade, including arbours with deciduous vines and louvers to decrease cooling demand in the summer months.

Mechanical Heat Recovery Ventilation (MHRV) can reduce the active heating and cooling by approximately 40%

This increases operational affordability, energy efficiency and thermal autonomy.

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AFFORDABILITY AND VIABILITY

The strategy of ‘Exploding the Block’ enhances the arrival experience via a landscaped open space network with a real sense of community about it, as well as creating a sense of human scale by breaking down the built form in to smaller elements.

The dwellings are provided with multiple aspects which creates significantly better outcomes for the occupants including better views, daylight, privacy, cross ventilation, thermal comfort, and lower energy usage.

By integrating the natural into the built form as well as the ‘space between’, the Neighbourhood Tapestry model nurtures our biophilic nature and together these strategies uplift the experience of apartment living.

The construction approach of the Neighbourhood Tapestry model drives costs down through a number of strategies. These include:

Form factor

The apartments within the Neighbourhood Tapestry model are typically rectilinear. This reduces the ratio of perimeter to area compared with a more articulated built form and reduces the cost per dwelling.

Window to wall ratio

the Neighbourhood Tapestry model has a relatively low window to wall ratio of 20:80 ,due to dwellings having multiple aspects. This results in a reduced facade cost rate.

Minimisation of circulation space

By externalising circulation through the landscaped open space,, expenditure on non-returning internal circulation is minimised, and the arrival experience enhanced with day lit landscaped space.

Traditional methods of Construction to Prefab ready

The Neighbourhood Tapestry mode can be built using concrete, steel or lightweight framing, although the nature of the model and the design of the apartments easily lend themselves to pre-fabrication - be it volumetric or planar.

CONSTRUCTION METHODOLOGY

Repetition and standardisation

All dwellings are planned on a 300mm grid. The cladding is treated as an interchangeable ‘kit of parts’ on a 600/900/1200/1500/1800/2100/2400 module, deployable across the entire development, including any different program such as co-work / retail. This places downward pressure on supply and assembly of these elements, and streamlines both ordering and fabrication.

Plug-in and plug-out and dial-up or dial-down

There is the geometric flexibility innate in ‘exploding the block’, and using modular elements, but on top of this, the component based approach is used to enable fine tuning of palette, and for various elements to be swapped in or out. This is a core proposition: the Neighbourhood Tapestry model is a framework which supports a palette of materials and optional elements in order to respond to context and market forces.

Deployability at Scale

The Neighbourhood Tapestry model provides a platform for apartment construction to move from being a project to being more of a product - and in doing so, there are significant capital cost reductions that are achievable. A model of housing that can be deployed at scale across Melbourne could represent a significant step change in dwelling affordability.

FUTURE ADAPTABILITY OF CAR PARKING AREAS

Patterns of private vehicular ownership look to be declining into the future.

The Neighbourhood Tapestry model seeksto take advantage from this trend by making car parking areas convertible to other programme such as additional dwellings, or a workplace, workshop, yoga studio, or other communal facility.

For the half-basement scheme, the incorporation of open sides with landscaped banks safeguards access to daylight, aspect, and fresh air for future dwellings as well as private open space and a natural setting.

The half-basement used in this model also provides significant savings over a full basement due to less excavation, cheaper and simpler retention ,and no mechanical ventilation as a result of the open sides

SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT

The bike parking (1 per dwelling) has been provided in each scheme, with the inclusion of an electric bike charging point located in an easy to access communal place. To ensure future sustainable transport options are catered for, Electric Vehicle charging points shared between parking spaces are provided.

THIS IS A CORE PROPOSITION: THE NEIGHBOURHOOD TAPESTRY MODEL IS A

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LANDSCAPE & BIODIVERSITY

The planting strategy at ground level and podium gardens is derived from Ecological Vegetation Classes (EVCs) from the Victorian Volcanic Plains Bioregion. Species have been selected to be well adapted to the micro climatic conditions on the site, as well as being robust and drought tolerant, along with their visual interest. Emphasis is placed on plants that are inherently attractive to birds and insects to promote biodiversity.

INTEGRATED WATER STRATEGY

All shared roof surfaces will be linked to a communal rainwater tank and rainwater reticulated to all apartments for WC flushing. A capacity of 2kL has been allowed per dwelling.

Town Houses have a 2KL private rainwater tank capturing water from private roof area., which connected directly back to the dwelling for private use of stored water.

Raingardens along the edge of all driveways & communal spaces at ground level. This will provide a filtration treatment to remove contaminants before being captured in retention tanks.

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