Designing Better, Not Bigger: Dynamic Architecture through Scalable Modular Systems
Researcher
Mather Architecure
Published
11 October 2022
Funding
Strategic Grant
Designing Better Not Bigger offers a design proposal in the form of pre-fabricated, scalable modular housing as a response to the current housing affordability crisis.
The project looks to improve sustainability and affordability for first home buyers, affordable housing clients and marginalised demographics, contributing towards establishing additional pathways towards property ownership for low to middle income earners. It provides a dwelling type that has the flexibility to change as the circumstances and expectations of the residents evolve. Modular design, along with pre-fabrication, challenges current small and medium scale residential design and construction practices and introduces a new way of thinking when it comes to how we conceive our homes.
The project demonstrates a minimal possible site plan that can accommodate the proposed scalable series and shows how this site plan can be integrated on a conceptual precinct based in the future stages of the Ginninderry new estate development in Canberra.
