00:13Nightingale 2 is located in Fairfield on the railway line. It comprises of 20 apartments
00:20and three shop fronts on the ground. Nightingale is a model of housing delivery. The model
00:27essentially tries to create essentially housing that is affordable, that has a high sustainability
00:34factor and is designed as a home rather than as an investment product. With the project one
00:44of the key drivers really was this idea of trying to create a vertical community. The
00:50open walkways creates an active and dynamic street interface. If you have connection between
00:55the levels through that open walkway then you can see other people. You have a connection
00:59with the street as well and you have a connection with nature with the planting around the open
01:03walkways. Then you've immediately created somewhere where you're much more likely to stop and have
01:07a chat with your neighbour. In relation to community spaces there's also of course the rooftop garden.
01:13And the rooftop garden has both a productive garden in it and also a barbecue, an outdoor fireplace and
01:20space to eat. What we try and do with these sorts of spaces is to create outdoor rooms, pockets so
01:27they
01:27can be enjoyed by more than one group that goes up there. We collect our rainwater and we use a
01:33heat pump
01:34for all our hot water. The building also has 20 kilowatts of solar power on the roof. This can possibly
01:42be
01:42expanded in the future. One of the things we do in Nottingham projects generally is that we give the
01:49most amount of area we can to live in and we get rid of the laundry for example and put
01:54that into a
01:55shared laundry. So which is another incidental meeting space where you bump into your neighbours.
02:02So we're sitting in a one-bedroom apartment. We get light from the north so it gets lovely morning
02:08lights and then light throughout the day but we also get ventilation through the apartments particularly
02:13in these apartments which are very well sealed but are not air conditioned. They can open up windows and
02:19get cross ventilation which is very important in the Melbourne context. When you first walk into the
02:23apartment you walk across a collier mat, you're underneath a timber soffit ceiling and then you walk in
02:31across the threshold and you're gridded with recycled timber flooring, exposed concrete ceilings and then
02:41a simple pallet for the joinery which is essentially form ply. It has a nice texture to it, it's relatively
02:46inexpensive
02:47and it comes pre-sealed.
02:52The living space is both a living room, lounge room and kitchen. It's a single bed apartment.
02:57The kitchen runs along the southern wall of the living room. It has to function both as a kitchen
03:03and a storage. It's essentially made out of the form ply but there's a level of materiality to it
03:10that goes beyond that. So there's stone involved, there are brass fittings, there's a mirrored splashback
03:16which also helps to increase the perception of the size of the room. We've got some of the cabin
03:21and some of it sits behind cupboard doors which then allows the occupants to personalise the space
03:28further rather than it just being a sheer wall. We try to maximise the available space and maximise
03:36the use of the available space. So one of the key things in this apartment is the window seat which
03:43then enables the table to sit up next to it. All the windows are double glazed. We have used a
03:49European
03:49system of tilt and turn windows and they provide a fantastic thermal break and thermal seal.
03:56And likewise the mechanism for the sliding doors out to the balcony is a lift and slide which again
04:02sits the door down onto a gasket which provides a great acoustic and thermal seal.
04:09The apartment has underfloor hydronic heating which is a lovely low temperature radiant heat.
04:16The bedroom sits on the southern side away from the railway line so we've mitigated the sound as
04:22much as we can through the use of double glazing and doors which perform well acoustically.
04:28It has floor-to-ceiling cabinetry. Because we don't have suspended ceilings we've got exposed ceilings
04:34that means that we can take our joinery up all the way up to the ceiling which means there's a
04:38whole
04:38lot more storage space in there as well. The bathrooms it's quite quite a dark palette with
04:44floor-to-ceiling charcoal tiles but we have included a little bit of detail around the sink and then
04:51there's the brass fittings that will pick up what is otherwise a pretty simple palette of materials.
04:57And then when you transition back from the bathroom back out to the living space
05:00it feels like it opens up into a lighter palette again.
05:05Although we need to be careful about where money is spent we selectively I guess a level of richness
05:11into the detailing so you'll notice on the way in that there's a threshold a timber threshold that
05:15you walk across there's a lead light at the front that's sort of sensitive bespoke that the hands
05:21have crafted the building you obviously can't include these levels of expense everywhere but you
05:26can include them at key moments and that makes all the difference. I think developments like
05:31Nottingham too are important because they start to show the development community what is possible
05:36and I guess they also start to show up the idea that not everyone necessarily wants two bathrooms
05:42not everyone wants a laundry in their house they're prepared to share some of this space if it gives them
05:47a larger living space if it gives them something that's much more that has much greater amenity to them
05:51generally and they're interested in living within a community and they're interested in living sustainably.
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