In My Back Yard

Description

Short listed Professional entry to Building Trust international HOME competition:

Single person households are rising across de-industrialised cities. The elderly, tertiary students, low paid service workers and the homeless some of the people who are struggling to find solutions from mainstream housing providers. IMBY proposes a community-led urban densification process, where the city’s most vulnerable citizens are able to be integrated and supported within existing urban neighbourhoods.

IMBY proposes a system of prefabricated flat-pack living pavilions that ‘camp’ on vacant urban land. The mobile nature of these pavilions means that they can be re-located to other sites in response to the ebb and flow of affordable housing demand. IMBY is designed to fit into either ‘Exempt’ or ‘Complying’ Local and State development controls, empowering householders to shape and enrich their neighbourhoods with activities that extend beyond domestic life. Most importantly IMBY provides a low-tech and incremental solution for integrating the most vulnerable of society into the larger community.