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Environmentally, socially and financially sustainable apartments with community as the focus

Nightingale 2.0

  • Location: Fairfield
  • Client: Nightingale Housing
  • Category: Multi Residential
  • Year: 2019
  • Photography: Tess Kelly, Rory Gardiner

Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country

Scale: Site 500m2, GFA 2,700m2, 5 levels, 20 Apartments

Value: $8m

Collaboration: HIP V. HYPE

Landscape: SBLA

VIDEO: Courtesy of Anthony Richardson at Simple Dwelling.

AWARDS

  • AILA National Awards, Winner, 2020

  • AILA Victorian Awards, Winner, 2020

  • AIA Victorian Architecture Awards, Sustainable Architecture, Commendation, 2020

  • Architecture & Design National Sustainability Awards, Multiple Dwelling, Winner, 2019

  • Melbourne Design Awards, Mixed Use, Winner, 2019

  • Premiere’s Sustainability Award, Finalist, 2019

An all-electric, very low energy 20 apartment building with 3 retail spaces. Based on the Nightingale model for triple bottom line sustainability, Six Degrees’ first Nightingale development makes use of a small land remnant close to Fairfield train station. Quality shared communal amenity? Yes. Car parking? No. Simple.

Rooftop fireplace

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Rooftop landscape

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Rooftop

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Living space

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Kitchen

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Open walkways

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Station adjacent

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Street activation

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Environment­ally, socially and financially sustainable apartments.

Open walkways

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Interior

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Framed view

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Bathroom

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Corner window detail

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