ANU Shipping container housing

Opening in 2010 is the new housing units at Australian National University in Canberra. This will be one of the first applications of shipping containers in multi-residential housing in Australia - following the precedent firmly established throughout the Netherlands and Scandinavia. The ease of construction and cost make this building an effective solution to address the current inadequacy of the existing housing on the Canberra campus. <accom.anu.edu.au/UAS/43.html>

Within Australia, the precedent for shipping container housing only extends to single residential units, popular within isolated mining towns where housing shortages are prevalent and in disaster response modules, such as Sean Godsell's FutureShack which has gone on to gain International recognition. <www.seangodsell.com/sga.swf>

<www.portrait.gov.au/exhibit/architecture/team-godsell.html>

<www.shippingcontainerhomes.com.au>

Organisations against the over-gentrification of urban spaces

SquatSpace - Creating awareness of the beautiful qualities of existing urban spaces.

http://www.squatspace.com/

There goes the neighbourhood - Exploring the politics of urban space.

http://www.theregoestheneighbourhood.org/

RedWatch - Resource for up-to-date information of re-development sites in Redfern and the surrounding suburbs.

http://www.redwatch.org.au/

Former Rachel Forster Hospital

The former Rachel Forster Hospital was started in the 1920's and was officially closed in 1993. The building is a prime example of Inter-war functionalist style hospital architecture and is recognised as such in the South Sydney Council LEP.

The re-development and re-zoning plans we established by Redfern Waterloo Authority, an initiative of the Labor State Government and headed until recently by former Minister for Planning Frank Sartor. The area was re-zoned as medium-density residential...

Sites such as this raise dynamic questions about the future of urban, inner-city spaces and therefore the affects of gentrification itself. Who has a right to an opinion about the future of this building? Planners, Architects, Politians? And where is the opinion of the existing population of Redfern, until more recently working-class and Indigenous Australians, who are in essence being displaced by this process...