Urban Tetris | City Above The City | Experimental Housing | Competition based project

Location | East Perth Train Station, Perth WA

A modular & affordable housing proposal for the international Metsa Wood competition.

Working with my partner, Dev Mawjee, we designed an experimental housing project atop the East Perth Train Station for the international Plan B City Above The City Competition, run by Metsa Wood.

While the issue of rapid urbanisation is pandemic globally, this proposal tests the possibilities of building above to promote sustainable population growth. The forecasted growth for Perth, Australia is expected to double within the next 50 years. The chosen site East Perth train station, is ideal for this project due to its proximity to the CBD, as well as accessibility to public transport and main arterial roads. Cities such as Perth highlight the societal sprawl that engages in unsustainable population growth. In researching the expanding population and the motives that drive this it is possible to see aspects other than land allocation that have contributed to urban sprawl.

Further investigation into the appeal of suburban living highlighted its ability to engage a sense of community, several key components contribute to this. We have highlighted these components as: 01_the street, 02_the park, 03_the verandah, 04_the shed, 05_the yard and 06_the corner store.

In exploring current high density housing we discovered that these elements were missing, contributing to the dismissal for inner city by the general populous.