Victoria
Aboriginal Housing Victoria (AHV) , a community led organisation managing over 1,500 rental properties for Aboriginal and Torres Strait people in Victoria, embodies the strength and resilience of First Nations People. This strength exists despite inadequate access to affordable and appropriate housing. An issue which is complex and multifaceted, rooted in dispossession and dislocation, one that requires action beyond architecture alone.
Recognising the need to significantly increase the amount of available housing stock, AHV engaged Breathe to design their first multi residential social housing project.
A guide throughout this process, AHV tasked Breathe with challenging the traditional typology of single dwellings; recognising its social and sustainability limitations in an urban context. The brief was, instead, to design a sustainable and culturally sensitive three storey multi residential development in the heart of Reservoir. A development that would serve the large First Nations population in the area and offer them a medium density community focused home.
Jeremy McLeod, Design Director
Faith Freeman, Project architect and project lead
Camilla Carmichael, Associate and project lead
Bettina Robinson, Interior design lead
Ali Galbraith, Design lead
Jacqueline Nguyen, Project Architect
Acoustic Logic, Acoustic engineer
Argall, Civil and structural engineer
Du Chateau Chun, Access consultants
Grunn consulting, ESD
Hansen Partnership, Planning consultants
Human Habitats, Landscape
RBD consulting, Building services engineer
Tahnee Edwards, artist and collaborator
Traffix Group, Traffic engineers
Urban Xchange, Project managers
The Australian Institute of Architects acknowledges First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters, and skies of the continent now called Australia.
We express our gratitude to their Elders and Knowledge Holders whose wisdom, actions and knowledge have kept culture alive.
We recognise First Nations peoples as the first architects and builders. We appreciate their continuing work on Country from pre-invasion times to contemporary First Nations architects, and respect their rights to continue to care for Country.
