Family-friendly apartment design

Our research, in partnership with the Victorian Department of Environment, Water, Land & Planning, illuminated a novel approach to increasing the supply of family-friendly apartments in Victoria.

We provided expertise on family-friendly apartment design to inform a design competition and planning regulations. Together, these resulted in exemplar designs for fast-tracking more liveable apartment development. These designs are currently in use informing the delivery of the Victorian Government’s Future Homes initiative.

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To learn more about the Future Homes initiative, visit the Victorian Government’s website.

Accessible and inclusive Geelong

Our research determined what was required to establish Geelong as a leading accessible and inclusive city.

This project informed a collective plan of action, supported by a wide range of community stakeholders, to enable Geelong to be accessed, understood and used to the greatest extent possible by all people.

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Microvillage

The initial Microvillage project explored the viability of increasing the supply of affordable small houses. It focused on people with limited funds who wanted to live in homes that minimise consumption of materials, land and energy, and which link with the community in meaningful ways.

Together, the Microvillage projects demonstrate an arc from research engagement to impact that underpins all of HOME’s projects. In this case, via sustained partnerships between philanthropy and industry, the research moved from understanding community needs to policy/design recommendations, to built outcomes, and to the evaluation of a new housing model for other contexts of housing precarity.

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Find out more about the Microvillage to transitional housing for homeless men project

Microvillage to transitional housing for homeless men

HOME was proud to be nominated for this project as a finalist in the 2022 Engagement Australia Excellence Awards, in the Award for Outstanding Engagement for Research Impact.

The project built a housing model which provides homeless men in the Geelong region with independent living units, to support them in transitioning to their own permanent accommodation.

Hear from Professor Tucker and project partners

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Find out more about the initial Microvillage project