Nightingale Umarkoo Wayi | Kennedy Nolan

Umarkoo Wayi means “all of us” in Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung language.  We are grateful to the Wurundjeri Elders for this name because it encapsulates a core principle of Nightingale: community.  We derive deep satisfaction from many aspects of the Nightingale model, but deepest satisfaction comes through the diverse, supportive and highly functional communities that develop in the buildings – Umarkoo Wayi is such a beautiful encapsulation of community and its place.

Nightingale is predicated on doing more with less.  Rather than being limiting, we see this as a rich driver of design.  We are interested in how the human qualities of great domestic space can improve the experience of any building, and we often do this through careful deployment of colour and texture, a limited palette of materials maintaining sustainability, durability and importantly, affordability; design energised colour and texture, rendered in simple and playful forms and accompanied by Amanda Oliver’s textural gardens.