00:11The Nightingale model is looking to revolutionise housing in Australia.
00:17It prioritises environmental, social and financial sustainability in the delivery of the project.
00:25Nightingale One is located in Brunswick, only six kilometres from the CBD of Melbourne.
00:33The building has 20 one and two bedroom apartments and three commercial tenancies.
00:40Our building facade has cream recycled bricks.
00:45We've also used a steel and glass gridded facade which is a real reference back to the industrial past of
00:52Brunswick.
00:54The exposed services and materials are part of a reductive design strategy to really remove the inner sensual.
01:03Curating the inner workings of a building such that it's both ornament and easy access but also it describes how
01:10our building works.
01:13The internal stairwell is intended to be a very robust but also quite delightful space.
01:20Straight off the form the concrete is raw and rough, naturally ventilated, naturally lit.
01:27At Nightingale we prioritise the communal areas.
01:33Here we have a rooftop terrace with sand pits, places for dogs to run around, barbecue,
01:45a communal veggie patch and shared laundry and clotheslines to help extend that private domain into a public common area.
02:02This apartment is just over 50 square metres.
02:05It's a tubular plan.
02:07You enter by a bedroom, there's a bathroom, living space and balcony facing the street below.
02:14At both ends of the tubular plan we have windows and doors to aid cross ventilation to the courtyard and
02:22street below.
02:24The design strategy for this building was really to deliver more with less.
02:28We adopted a really simple limited material pallet, things like recycled Australian hardwood flooring,
02:36form ply because it doesn't need any additional finish, concrete for its robustness and brass to patina with age.
02:45While this apartment is quite compact at 2.7 metres in width, by exposing the surfaces we have a more
02:53lofty 2.9 metre high ceiling,
02:56which gives a greater sense of volume.
02:59The apartment has LED lighting throughout with exposed cabling that traces the ceiling.
03:06In this apartment there is a linear joinery element that unites the two spaces, the living and the kitchen.
03:13But between them steps in height to define the two spaces.
03:17In this compact apartment storage is really important, so we have some really deep drawers, concealed cabling and shelving in
03:27the living side.
03:29It's also really important in the kitchen, we have extensive drawers, double dish drawer dishwasher, full height pantry storage.
03:48This building is carbon neutral in operation, which means there's no gas at all.
03:53As a result we have induction cooktop.
04:02The bathrooms are lined in strapped fibre cement sheet with a bluestone tile floor.
04:09We've used brass hardware in the bathrooms, shelves, showers and hooks, as well as a concrete basin.
04:20This apartment is just 2.7 metres wide.
04:23We didn't have the luxury of having a four walled room.
04:27Instead we have divided the space with a recycled polyester curtain
04:32that provides an acoustic and thermal buffer from the rest of the apartment.
04:40We also have full height robes made from the same form ply that we've used in the kitchen and living
04:45room.
04:50These apartments have an average energy rating of 8.2 stars, which means we didn't need any active cooling like
04:57air conditioning.
04:58So instead we have natural cross ventilation and these ceiling sweep fans in living room and bedroom.
05:04For heating we've used recycled cast iron hydronic panels that have been locally sourced.
05:13The balcony is effectively a winter garden, an enclosed glazed space.
05:19Essentially offers an extension of the living areas regardless of the seasons.
05:26It also has an integrated planter box that offers green outlook and helps to vegetate the facade.
05:37At Nightingale there's a series of moments that encourage our residents to interact and exchange
05:44and to help build community within this building through from their entrance right up to the rooftop terrace.
05:52By designing communal spaces like this really breaks down that sense of isolation in communities
05:57which makes for a desirable urban model.
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