Sevennewaordable homes inSt. Albans.
Housing Choices commissioned NMBW Architecture Studio and urban planners, Hansen Partnership, to design an ageing-in-place, medium density townhouse and apartment development. It features flexible space capability, allowing living and sleeping spaces to be reconfigured to meet the significant changing needs of residents over their lifetime. Through its cutting-edge Space for Ageing research program, Monash University’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture contributed $25,000 of in-kind research to the project (pg 95). The program is helping to re-think dwelling design to meet the future needs of an ageing population. Not only will these seven new homes bring much-needed aordable housing solutions to vulnerable people in the St. Albans area, the project will also lead the way for future innovation in housing. This, in turn, will meet the future housing needs of an ageing population and the SDA requirements under the NDIS.
Good quality building and good locations are vital for people as they grow older and often become less mobile. But smart, internal space design is how we can make a much greater, long-term impact on how people live in the future. Being able to stay in your own home as you age is a choice people want and should have. Most of us want to be independent as we grow older, but we don’t want to be isolated. An innovative solution is for a home to cost-eectively reconfigure the internal spaces of a dwelling in the future, to accommodate someone’s changing physical needs; a big step forward in accessible housing design. The St. Albans project is a relatively small but exciting one. It’s about everyone involved coming together to make the right planning and design decision, to last a lifetime, before a single brick is laid. The project will comprise seven apartments: four three-bedroom, two two-bedroom and a single one-bedroom. The ground floor dwellings are specifically designed to meet the new NDIS SDA standards. The site is located close to amenities including shops, schools and public transport. Housing Choices plans to complete the build by the end of 2019.
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