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Location
Brunswick VIC
Builder
Hacer
Collaborators
Hayball
Photographer
The Local Project
We are facing the dual challenges of a climate crisis and a housing crisis. We need housing solutions that look to radically innovate.
Imagine a home that uses half the embodied carbon, half the operational carbon, that costs half as much to buy and costs half as much to run.
Enter, the Teilhaus. (German for ‘part of a house’.)
The Teilhaus is about cracking the door to a new housing future. It looks to prove that small footprint housing has to be part of a sustainable, elegant housing solution in our cities.
Inspired by the magic of the 24m2 Cairo Apartments by Best Overend in 1936, our 24m2 apartments are woven throughout the building. Designed to be functional, delightful and to be seen as the foundation of a kit of parts for future urban residents. The home extends beyond the walls of the Teilhaus and is completed and enhanced through additional shared spaces such as dining rooms, rooftop gardens and bath houses.
These Teilhaus apartments were a new approach. We had no data or experience to support the premise that they would be accepted or adopted by the future Nightingale Housing residents. We had to design the building in a way that should they not sell at ballot, they could be incorporated into an adjoining one bedroom apartment to make a bigger, more standard two bedroom. This took considerable strategic thinking and design resolution to design and co-ordinate two floor plate options.
Skye House was the first building in the Nightingale Housing project to include the Teilhaus typology. On ballot day, they were by far the most popular apartment type. As a result, Nightingale Housing now asks architects to include Teilhaus apartments into their buildings. It has continued to be their most sought after apartment typology in a tough housing market.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Nightingale 1 stands. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters, and culture.
We are facing the dual challenges of a climate crisis and a housing crisis. We need housing solutions that look to radically innovate.
Imagine a home that uses half the embodied carbon, half the operational carbon, that costs half as much to buy and costs half as much to run.
Enter, the Teilhaus. (German for ‘part of a house’.)
The Teilhaus is about cracking the door to a new housing future. It looks to prove that small footprint housing has to be part of a sustainable, elegant housing solution in our cities.
Inspired by the magic of the 24m2 Cairo Apartments by Best Overend in 1936, our 24m2 apartments are woven throughout the building. Designed to be functional, delightful and to be seen as the foundation of a kit of parts for future urban residents. The home extends beyond the walls of the Teilhaus and is completed and enhanced through additional shared spaces such as dining rooms, rooftop gardens and bath houses.
These Teilhaus apartments were a new approach. We had no data or experience to support the premise that they would be accepted or adopted by the future Nightingale Housing residents. We had to design the building in a way that should they not sell at ballot, they could be incorporated into an adjoining one bedroom apartment to make a bigger, more standard two bedroom. This took considerable strategic thinking and design resolution to design and co-ordinate two floor plate options.
Skye House was the first building in the Nightingale Housing project to include the Teilhaus typology. On ballot day, they were by far the most popular apartment type. As a result, Nightingale Housing now asks architects to include Teilhaus apartments into their buildings. It has continued to be their most sought after apartment typology in a tough housing market.
Location
Brunswick VIC
Builder
Hacer
Collaborators
Hayball
Photographer
The Local Project
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Nightingale 1 stands. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters, and culture.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Breathe acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Breathe stands. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.
