Affordable Housing

We are committed to collaborating with community housing providers to provide the benchmark for quality social housing in our communities.

With resident wellbeing and connectedness at the forefront of our approach, we design apartments of varying sizes that promote social diversity and choice. Adaptable design is incorporated using LHA guidelines to allow for aging in place and resident flexibility.

We place importance on designs that foster social interaction, with external circulation areas and shared facilities used to encourage communication and a sense of community.

relevant projects

Social Housing Design Guidelines Toolkit - Indicative Floor Plans

The Indicative Floor Plans are a tool developed by Arkhefield for the Queensland Government - Housing Partnerships Office (HPO), Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy to form part of their Social Housing Design Guidelines Toolkit.

DDDW Holland Park

Arkhefield’s commended entry ‘Retrofix’ in the Density and Diversity Done Well design competition was selected by the Queensland Government Architect and the Department of Housing and Public Works to be developed as a demonstration project. The original concept has been adapted to suit a corner suburban site (previously three houses) in Holland Park for a community of twelve one-bedroom units.

Medium Density Social Housing

Our brief was to design 12 single bedroom units for residents of social housing for the Department of Housing and Public Works. This was to be achieved by providing rational, cost effective, compact units which are adaptable, robust and capitalise on the site’s elevation and aspect. Units were to meet gold and platinum LHA standards with an emphasis on flexibility and livability.

Density and Diversity Done Well

Arkhefield and Urbis recently collaborated to submit an entry titled ‘Retrofix’ to the Queensland Government’s Density and Diversity Done Well competition. This future housing study explored how an existing suburban block could be retrofitted to facilitate sharing, enable densification and promote community interaction

People

Zoe Ridgway

Architect + Practice Director

Zoe has a depth of experience in design, documentation and delivery across a range of project scales, having successfully delivered two major Student Accommodation projects in the inner city in the last 4 years.

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