Re: Detached

Re: Detached is a speculative suburban intensification infill strategy, proposing a new dwelling typology at the scale of low-medium density housing. Adapting co-operative financial development models at the scale of a typical detached suburban home. Exploring it’s possibilities to influence and generate an architecture that reflects the ideals of shared living. The project looks specifically at low-density suburban areas of Perth, where privately owned single detached dwellings dominate the landscape.

In the process, Re: Detached directly challenges the cause and effect of urban sprawl (Private developments based on investment) to address the housing needs of changing contemporary household demographics and lifestyles. Here, the abundance of detached dwellings in the suburbs of Greater Perth are viewed as an under-utilised resource rich in social, cultural and spatial qualities, ready to be mined, refined and redefined as a new form and dwelling type. Examining the historical and contemporary behaviours of Perth’s suburban development from both a personal and cultural lens, Re: Detached identifies the lack of diverse housing stock, in combination to private development models (which exclude and fail to accommodate changing household demographics) as an opportunity to experiment, speculate and innovate existing dwelling stocks and models of development.

Re: Detached is a work in progress that invites an open discussion speculating how a small to medium shared dwelling type might influence an established suburb, especially in a regenerative capacity from environmental, cultural and social aspects.