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CITY EDGE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

MELBOURNE VIC | 1971–1974

Daryl Jackson and Evan Walker (architects) for Housing Commission of Victoria

City Edge is an affordable private housing development led by the Commission to introduce an alternative to the suburban houses and ‘six pack’ flats that dominated the market. It offers the idea of an urban village close to the city.

The project is designed to facilitate community interaction with the local area and amongst residents. The buildings connect to the neighbourhood, with upper floor balconies, ground floor individual flat entrances and front gardens opening to the street.

Within the development, semi-private spaces help foster community, such as open-air walkways between the buildings that generate communal open space. The project also includes a communal green space planted with native vegetation. 

The open-air walkways help the upper apartments to be have better light and ventilation properties. Noise between apartments is reduced by the use of triple brick exterior walls and acoustic treated ceilings.