Architecture

My project Productive dWell(be)ings is situated in the inner city suburb of Brunswick and looks to design new housing development models through the filter of urban gardening and food production, in an attempt to both enhance a sense of community, and provide socio-economic benefits to the wider region.

There are a number of benefits to introducing small scales of agriculture and food production back into the rhythm of everyday life, with precedents now extending from Havana to Brooklyn. Growing, harvesting, and producing one’s own food provides opportunities for new commerce, social mixture and diversity, education and training, leisure and health, and the gentrification of land.

Productive dWell(be)ings consists of 5 adjacent sites which present 5 unique development typologies that implement both private and communial productive gardens. The mixture of housing, commercial program and public amenity present a method of inner city densification which not only increases the number of dwellings, but also gives back to the community and begins to address food security issues associated with urban sprawl.