Inter-Urban Diver-City
Gresley Abas was proud to be a winner of the Diversity & Density Done Well open design competition for the Department of Planning in Queensland.
The jury commented:
This idea re-imagines the suburban McMansion as a private community of 4-6 dwellings of differing size and type.
The concept merges three sometimes-maligned housing forms – the six pack, the McMansion and the share-house – into a new flexible built form that offers a place to live for singles, couples, small young families, established families and empty-nesters.
The jury saw great potential for this model to house the young and the young at heart, particularly elderly people or people with a disability who wish to live in a contemporary, non-institutional community-style setting.
Following a full design and documentation process, the project is now under construction in the Brisbane suburb of Zillmere. The final design offers an innovative redeployment of typical suburban, residential housing construction techniques and materials into 3-storey multiple dwelling clusters.
“Every unit offers a range of shared amenities that retain the ‘luxuries’ of traditional suburban home ownership.”
The project is designed for sub-tropical conditions. All dwellings have multiple aspects to optimise cross ventilation. Northern solar access is provided to all main internal and external private living areas and every dwelling has a generous private outdoor north facing terrace.
