Affordable Housing Project

Name Affordable Housing Project
Client Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority & City West Development Corporation
Country Gadigal
Location Ultimo, NSW
Year 1994 - 1995

The Affordable Housing Project comprises 33 low-cost public apartments which provide subsidised housing to a range of occupants in one of Sydney’s densest urban areas. The project employed pioneering environmentally sustainable principles for a medium-rise residential project in an urban environment.

The design team specified materials with low toxicity, low energy use and minimal processing. These materials, in combination with passive solar design, solar heating and water recycling, created a significant early ‘green’ project.

On the northern side of each block the apartments have lobbies with sliding translucent screens, which double as internal circulation and indoor-outdoor private living spaces.

The southern facades are more restrained and are built using thermally dense masonry in a self-finished render, to reflect the building’s heritage setting and reduce ongoing maintenance.

Awards

1996 RAIA Merit Award

1996 RAIA National Environment Award

Team

Brian Zulaikha, Kieran McInerney, Julie Mackenzie.

Collaborators

Rod Simpson.

Photographer

Eric Sierins.

Previous Project:
Verona Cinemas

Next Project:
Birchgrove House

Affordable Housing Project

The design team specified materials with low toxicity, low energy use and minimal processing. These materials, in combination with passive solar design, solar heating and water recycling, created a significant early ‘green’ project.

On the northern side of each block the apartments have lobbies with sliding translucent screens, which double as internal circulation and indoor-outdoor private living spaces.

The southern facades are more restrained and are built using thermally dense masonry in a self-finished render, to reflect the building’s heritage setting and reduce ongoing maintenance.

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TZG acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, on whose land we work and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future. We are committed to a just, equitable and reconciled Australia and support the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Always was, always will be.

TZG acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, on whose land we work and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future. We are committed to a just, equitable and reconciled Australia and support the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Always was, always will be.