13

13 is a project about economy, freedom, metaphor and provision. Dealing with the issue of the extractive nature of the residential rental market where you are not able to do anything but pay for a roof over your head and tend to another’s land with no return. The garden suburbs of Melbourne are an ideological myth, and the profession is complicit by perpetually designing dwelling stock that is only compliant with residential design regulations for ‘landowners’, the ideology of Menzie’s ‘the forgotten people’ speech continues. 13 questions the residential typology, allowing residents to enter a separate economic market themselves devoid from the economy of the land of 15 Outlook Drive through the architecture as an instrument.