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This document provides an overview of a mid-semester presentation focusing on developing an alternative housing model for the Kialla North Growth Corridor in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. The presenter analyzed the existing Kialla Lakes housing estate and proposed a more decentralized design with smaller lots and houses, green corridors, and clusters of 9 plots centered around shared areas to facilitate community. The proposal aimed to deliver similar housing density while improving amenities and flexibility compared to typical estate housing. Details were presented on the 1:10,000, 1:500, and 1:150 scale drawings and designs.

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This document provides an overview of a mid-semester presentation focusing on developing an alternative housing model for the Kialla North Growth Corridor in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. The presenter analyzed the existing Kialla Lakes housing estate and proposed a more decentralized design with smaller lots and houses, green corridors, and clusters of 9 plots centered around shared areas to facilitate community. The proposal aimed to deliver similar housing density while improving amenities and flexibility compared to typical estate housing. Details were presented on the 1:10,000, 1:500, and 1:150 scale drawings and designs.

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Mid Semester Presentation

Intro:

I’m focusing on developing an alternative model to estate housing that responds to the question
‘what does it mean to live today?’ Thinking about housing as a result and conditioner to the state of
society and the people that live in it, informed from and shaping at the same time. Rethinking estate
housing to provide a more communal and green neighbourhood that provides a diverse range of
housing for the diverse demographic of Shepparton. There is a lack of diverse housing within housing
estates, with few options for smaller sizes and very little variation in housing typology, with a focus
only on the nuclear family.

In 2050 growth plan this area known as Kialla North Growth Corridor (one of five residential growth
areas) has been rezoned to an Urban Growth Zone with planning underway. The north of the site is
prone to flooding, and in the councils proposed that this area be left to ‘rural housing’ of larger plots
with raised housing and then also as public open green space where it floods higher. The southern
portion of the site is for residential, with an estimated supply of 2,150 houses, which is the site I will
be working on.

1:10,000 Drawing

This is Kialla, as you can see it is populated mostly by housing estates and farmland. I have analysed
Kialla Lakes and assessed what amenity is there, which turns out to be not much at all. A few cafes
amd commercial spaces within the estate as well as a private school and 3 lakes and some parks.

Comparing this to the 20 minute neighbourhood (which is part of the Victorian State Government’s
long term planning strategy), which is about living locally – giving people the ability to meet most of
their everyday needs within a 20-minute walk, Kialla seems rather under resourced. Inner city
suburbs like Carlton or FitzRoy already meet this 20 minute neighbourhood test, but its these new
developer driven housing estates that are lacking.

The question that I had at this scale was how could these developments become more friendly, more
alive and less dependent on cars? Also something I thought about was how can this be done to
existing clusters, retrofitting amenity into them.

I’m proposing a more decentralised provision of amenity throughout the neighbourhood with green
corridors surrounding each cluster. An attempt at facilitating community through providing small
clusters of 9 plots around a central shared area.

1:500 Drawing

Zooming in at 1:500 on the estate we see the large project homes taking up a big portion of the
20x40 metre lot (slightly smaller the ¼ acre), with an average of 240 square metres each. The 2:1
proportion of the 800 sq/m lot creates long houses with a clear front and a back. One of the most
spatially interesting aspects of the estate are these incidental alleyways that occur at dead ends,
where the developer is trying to out in as many houses as possible without the need for a road.

My proposal shrinks the lot to an average of 400 sq/m, half of the size of the estate lots, giving much
of the unused back garden space to the ecological corridors. The house also shrinks to an average of
140 sq/m. The plots have at least two frontages, one onto the street and the others onto the green
area. Each cluster has a central roundabout with potential to construct a shared flexible space and
two alleys opening up onto the public green space.

Delivering 2213 houses, in comparison with the Shepparton council projection of 2,150 for what
would be a typical housing estate. The proposed design averages 8.1 plots per hectare, whilst Kialla
Lakes averages 7.5 plots per hectare (including the lakes). Whilst maintaining a similar density, the
proposed housing estate

1:150 Drawing

New plans are needed to serve contemporary society and facilitate communality within the house
and society. The zoning of the typical project home of master suite, kitchen living dining and then
secondary bedrooms, The centre is the kitchen area, with corridors leading off it into the bedroom
zones. These bedroom zones are not particularly flexible within the spatial flow of the house as they
are segregated by corridors, zoned off and unable to be reintegrated into the centre, forever a
terminal room with one door.

A house lasts a long time, through the many phases of life of the inhabitant as well as the new
inhabitants after that! Plans need to flexible, because I don’t know how you live, and you don’t know
how I live, and we both don’t know how we will be living in ten years time. Interesting spatial
connections between rooms is important; both so that the inhabitant can live in a beautiful space
and also so that the house is best able to house all of its inhabitants.

Rooms with doors aren’t part of the centre of the plan

Corridors, connectability of rooms, enfilade etc.

TBC

Something I would like to integrate is the garage as a

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