- Title
- Visualizing place as the suburbs become the 'nearly urban'
- Creator
- Tucker, Chris; Chapman, Michael
- Relation
- Designing Place: International Urban Design Conference 2012. Proceedings of the Conference - Designing Place (2012) (Nottingham, UK 2-3 April, 2012) p. 685-696
- Relation
- http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/departments/abe/news-and-events/conference/index.aspx
- Publisher
- The University of Nottingham, Urban Design Research Group
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- The need to realise a higher density of houses within Australian cities has shown a preoccupation with the multi storey apartment building, an urban structure that often suggests an idealised notion of place connected with a rural building vernacular, the pragmatics of security, garaging vehicles, and the geographic, rather than cultural, context of cities. This focus has been at the expense of a more complete understanding of place and the social nuances that can help to define and propagate it (Seamon 1993). Drawing upon romantic notions of the 'shed' this paradigm in recent Australian residential architecture embodies an essentially greenfield model of development where buildings are situated in a vast natural landscape some distance from an urban street. When these buildings are forced to engage with the street they often deny its social condition and in doing so undermine the cultural relevance and contemporary forms of urban living. The role of urban space in relation to urban architecture calls for a radical reconceptualisation of place that engages the environmental pragmatics of sustainability, while celebrating the historic fabric of a place, its heterogeneity, and reorientate contemporary architectural discourse with "cultural" rather than ''geographic" environmental cues. This paper explores the visual and spatial fields of the 'nearly urban' fringe within east coast Australian cities, a contested territory where the detached dwellings of the inner suburbs are making way for new apartment buildings. While this has the desired effect of increasing housing density they often do so at the expense of the social and cultural relationship the demolished dwellings have had with the street (Fiske 1987). The paper demonstrates these ideas with an architectural propositions that shows how radical infill instead of demolition provides higher densities and opportunities for dwellings within the residual spaces between and on the outside of existing buildings.
- Subject
- Australian residential architecture; multi storey buildings; urban planning
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1059392
- Identifier
- uon:16591
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780853582823
- Language
- eng
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