The Next Generation Apartment Buildings report explores how architects in Southeast Asia adapt classical tropical architecture principles to address contemporary urban challenges. The study aims to inspire innovative design solutions for resilient urban living in Australia. It presents my research conducted in 2018 through the Australian Institute of Architects Dunbar Fellowship.
One way to make apartments more affordable for owner-occupants is to adjust the resident / architect relationship. Breathe Architects have done just that and created a new and useful procurement process that challenges the profit-driven developer model and delivers cost-effective climate-responsive design, livability and community values.
For residents of high-rise apartment buildings proliferating in cities across Australia energy insecurity is literally designed in to the dwellings they occupy. Energy unaffordability and problems that occur during power outages are intensified by energy-intensive building design. These problems are avoidable.
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