Foveaux Street Student Housing
On a tight infill site, this new generation student housing development fits 32 self-contained rooms over five levels above ground-floor café and communal spaces.
Modelling of different internal options for this narrow, 250 square metre site yielded its highly efficient floor plate, using fire stairs as the main circulation spine, with a light well through the building that benefits the central café courtyard, primary circulation zone and rooms.
The building activates the frontages onto Foveaux Street and Belmore Lane with the internal planning of the building revolving around a generous light well providing light to a number of rooms and the primary circulation zone. The light well also serves as an open courtyard to the ground level café.
Awards
- 2018 Winner, Affordable Housing, Master Builders Association of NSW
- 2018 Winner, Excellence in Affordable Development, Urban Development Institute of Australia (NSW)
Our new generation boarding houses provide affordable well-crafted accommodation within contextually appropriate buildings.
Ian Armstrong
Director, DesignInc
People
Insight
Biophilia and Place—Director Richard Does
Biophilic design creates architecture and urban spaces that are inspired by or imitate the natural environment.
Insight
DesignInc Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Architecture Scholarship
We are proud to announce the first donor-funded scholarship supporting an Indigenous Australian student in Western Sydney University’s faculty of Architecture.
Insight
Affordable Housing in NSW—a Changing Landscape
Housing affordability remains a vexing issue in NSW. The COVID19 pandemic has seen more households unable to service their housing costs, putting a spotlight on the issue.
Insight
Getting to Know Lodi van Eeghen
Lodi Van Eeghen joined the DesignInc Sydney residential architecture team three years ago, and recently became an Associate. We talked with Lodi about drawing, studying architecture in Holland, family, and his motivations as a designer.
Insight
Gender Equality at DesignInc
For the last few years DesignInc Sydney has been on a journey to increase female representation across all levels within the company.
Residential
Architecture’s most intimate expression is the home. From affordable housing, single dwellings and mixed-use precincts, we take a restorative approach to each site, its context and its community.
