MICRO HOUSING 2019 ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

EJE Architecture, 2019

Address: 1-3 Nobbys Rd, Newcastle East, NSW, 2300

Type: Competition

Brief: The participants are to design a prototype of a micro-housing unit that reflects the personal needs and culture of the residential community chosen. A suitable aggregation of these micro-housing units should be done in an urban context, mirroring the communal needs of the group of users.
A total of 100 users should be considered for the design. Participants are to choose a site relevant to the topic, in the urban context.
The design has to serve as an upgrade to the standard of living of the users. While being very functional in nature, it should also be aesthetically pleasing.
The built-up area of each residential unit should not exceed 350 sq.ft.and should house up to 4 individuals. The unit should be a prototype, making the optimum use of space, and it needs to be explained in detail. The designed units should cater to personal needs (rest, bath, cook, and work) and community requirements (interact). As per their discretion, the participants are free to add more spaces required in their designs. The design of the micro-housing residential complex should also provide solutions for circulation such as staircases, passages, etc.
These units should also be stacked in a manner to create clusters that can address various issues in the metropolitan city.

Role: In this project I produced the renders and edited them appropriately in Photoshop, to be used in the final competition entry.