Bluefield Housing as Alternative Infill for the Suburbs

ISBN-13: 9781032276908 / Twarda / 2023 / 360 str.

Damian Madigan

Opis

Suburbanised cities share a common dilemma: how to transition to more densely populated and socially connected urban systems while retaining low-rise character, avoiding gentrification, and opening neighbourhoods to more diverse housing choices. This book offers a new land definition and co-located infill model addressing these concerns.

Recenzje

"At a time where so much of the world is experiencing housing crises, Madigan provides a vision and guide for a much needed departure from Australia’s broken ‘business as usual’ for how we deliver housing. An essential read for architects, planners and developers alike, and anyone who thinks ‘housing’ could do better in supporting a future where we all thrive."

Brugh O'Brien, Principal: Future of Home, The Australian Centre for Social Innovation

“This book is both a grand vision for a future of housing and practical guide for how to achieve it. There are maps of global potential for transforming single family neighborhoods alongside ideas for how to manage suburban infill essentials such as laundry and garbage. It is an invaluable combination of speculative pragmatism and prosaic invention with tangible relevance for the suburbs of the United States and Canada – a key reference for researchers and practitioners alike.”

Michael Piper, University of Toronto

"More affordable, more diverse and more delightful housing? Seems like everybody is after it and we need it more than ever, but the inertia of established systems discourages change. This book takes a suite of practical and highly effective design ideas and runs them through a rigorous process addressing financial opportunities, regulations and community attitudes; showing how to move towards ‘win-win' scenarios that deliver more dwellings and retain the character of the cities and suburbs we love. A timely and valuable contribution to the housing debate."

Nigel Bertram, Professor of Architecture, Monash University and Director, NMBW Architecture Studio

“Bluefield Housing reminds us that our suburbs are not immutable, but ever-changing and malleable. It shows us why they can - and should be - altered and added to. This is design research at its best - useful, transferable, propositional – advocating a compelling alternative to planning metrics. Madigan’s incisive work ranges from acute observation and analysis to lucid propositions showing the latent capacity of suburban form to accommodate more – more trees, open space, connections, diversity, people: more good stuff.”

Jennie Officer, Senior Lecturer, School of Design, University of Western Australia, and Director, Officer Woods Architects

“In the face of dynamic global demographics we urgently need imaginative, land-efficient, habitat-protective, cost-effective housing solutions. Damian’s concept of "Bluefield Housing” is an exciting proposition and, in truth, common sense."

Naomi Cleaver, designer, author and TV presenter

Spis treści

Part 1  1. Being ‘Suburban’  2. An Appetite for New Forms of Suburban Living  3. On Character and ‘Fitting In’  4. Suburban Anomalies and Operations: catalogues of infill opportunities  Part 2  5. From Green to Blue: a new definition for suburban infill  6. The Seven Principles of Bluefield Housing  7. Lot-level Design Tactics  8. Design for Liveability and Sustainability  Part 3  9. From Top-down to Bottom-up: a deployable model  10. Single Allotments  11. Double Allotments  12. Multiple Allotments  Part 4  13. A New Normal: leveraging established conditions  14. Carrots and Sticks: incentivising bluefield housing  15. Financing, Operating, and Selling Bluefield Housing  16. Zoning Laws: enabling bluefield housing  Part 5  17. The Value of the Diagram and Studies in Rooms  18. Backgrounding Design Studies: a ‘designerly’ way of seeing  19. Generative Design Studies for Bluefield Housing  20. Housing for Whom? – Lessons from the Town Hall Floor

 

O autorze

Damian Madigan is a registered architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of South Australia. A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and a member of the South Australian State Government’s Design Review Panel, he undertakes housing research through design, working collaboratively with academics, industry, and government to create suburban infill housing typologies that better suit changing demographics. As an individual and collaborator, his housing propositions have won design competition awards, shortlistings, and commendations from the City of Los Angeles, the New South Wales State Government, the City of Sydney, Architecture Australia, and the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation.