Mundingburra Housing
TOWNSVILLE
AIA AWARDS
QLD Regional Project of The Year
North QLD Award for Social Impact
QLD Commendation for Multi-Residential
UDIA
Affordable Housing Award
QLD GOVT MINISTER’S AWARD FOR URBAN DESIGN
Commendation
Mundingburra Housing is an exemplar regional public housing project that delivers 18 new homes in Townsville. The project responds directly to its specific surrounding context and aims to create opportunities for both individual identity and a sense of community for its residents.
A landscaped communal space is at the heart of the scheme. All homes are linked to this open space both visually and through pedestrian walkways. This space is intended to foster a sense of community and create opportunities for casual interaction between residents.
Building forms and materiality also directly reference precedents found in the surrounding post-war suburban context and splashes of colour have been selectively introduced into the covered outdoor spaces to further reinforce a sense of individual identity for each of the homes, as well as to enliven and further ‘de-institutionalise’ the overall complex.
Photography by Andrew Rankin
