Shoreline Medium Density Housing
The Shoreline project is part of a wider project for Development WA, the Cockburn Coast Redevelopment, which seeks to transform under-utilised former industrial land into a vibrant urban centre. Extensive research and testing of urban design and housing typologies was undertaken by Development WA in a collaborative process with a team of urban designers, landscape architects, traffic engineers and architects to deliver a medium density development which demonstrated affordable, innovative design solutions for the medium density housing sector, which is currently undercatered for, resulting in it being referred to as ‘the missing middle’.
The project provides high quality designed built form in a variety of housing typologies, ranging from 3 bed 2 story terraces to 1 bed 80m2 microlots. The houses are located in a medium density environment with a strong focus on quality urban landscape and public space.
The innovative, medium density housing design solutions provide:
* Excellent design outcomes,
* Good solar access,
* Well considered traffic and parking outcomes,
* Use of quality of materials,
* A focus on private and public outdoor space,
* Strong built form articulation,
* High quality streetscape outcomes
“A design-led project that seeks to deliver quality, innovative housing outcomes on an infill site.”
The main challenge in this project was to design dwellings of a townhouse scale that presented attractive streetscapes to both the east facing Public Open Space at the front of the dwellings, and the west facing laneway. The design solution creates an activated laneway with strong form articulation, dealing with garages and carparking in a sensitive manner, whilst providing optimum access to northern solar light.
