social sustainability

Our built environment: sustainable and affordable housing

By Mr Adrian Just, Director, Archicology Architects PL

This paper firstly makes an historical comparison between living patterns of Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, and secondly considers where people will live in the future and what they will live in.

For over 50 years, people have been migrating to South East Queensland, and this has affected the rate of development and the spread of housing that people choose to live in. There are divergent stories between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, with differing planning and housing vernaculars.

We are on the cusp of a new range of housing typologies which are now necessarily sustainable and affordable. This is being driven by people’s needs, but also requires interventions to break the old housing models and market misconceptions. The change agents in this industry include demonstration by government, the state of the economy and the aspirations of the major developers.

Some specifics are outlined for planning and housing types, social sustainability and universal housing, and zero/low emission housing.

Mr Adrian Just
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