On 21st September, Mulloway Studio participated in PARK(ing) Day in Adelaide.

We masked the 1:1 footprint of a single occupancy transition housing on a car park on Waymouth Street using coloured tapes and stickers. The graphic exercise allows for people to engage on a 1:1 scale and the cartoon like nature of the graphic brings a sense of ‘play’ in engaging the public on issues of housing for marginalised communities.

We had a very positive response from the community throughout the day and our installation won an honourable mention out of 44 installations.

Mulloway Studio recently entered the ‘Home’ international architectural design competition, facilitated by Building Trust International. Our submission PARK(ed), a $30K single occupancy house within an urban area of a developed country, was awarded an honourable mention, and recognised as one of the top ten proposals from a field of more than 400 entries.

PARK(ed) is a single occupancy housing strategy designed for Youth ‘at risk’. Measuring 12.5sqm, it is an urban intervention that seeks to activate underutilized car parks in Adelaide’s CBD. The design aims to facilitate a mind-shift from suburban living to micro-urban living, creating a small but highly efficient home within the constraints of a car park and a construction budget of $30K. PARK(ed) is designed to be easily transportable and can be built off-site and assembled on-site.

Dimensioned 5.4m x 2.3m, the design follows a conventional spatial distribution of an Australian home: entry, living room, kitchen and dining area, bathroom, laundry, storage and bedroom. The house has a high roof line creating a large volume about the living area and provides space for a loft bed over the bathroom. The roof window allows light penetration, views to the sky and is operable. The entry porch includes area for laundry and outdoor living with a deck that doubles up as step seating. A stable style door in the living area opens out fully to extend the space or closed partially to create privacy. Open shelves are used as room dividers and balustrades to the loft bedroom. A separate area above the porch gives additional storage but can easily accommodate an additional single bed. The façade opens up to the footpath and includes panels that allow residents to customise them with different paint colours.

Mulloway Studio is currently working on establishing partnerships with organisations to further develop the design.

parraNET was developed in collaboration with Ernest Edmonds for Parramatta City Council as part of Design Parramatta, a six week design workshop to develop a series of ideas and concepts that will influence the city’s public domain strategy.

It is a project that explores how large scale, ‘flat’ artistic installations can activate the negative elevations of buildings in Parramatta. Through the use of large colour surface coupled with historical and real time images activated by sensory technology, parraNET aims to transform parts of the city into an urban gallery by arousing cultural curiosity. As large colour planes/surfaces, they insert ‘calm interventions’ into the city-scape and encourage reflection of the urban framework. The large scale art installation is further supported by a network of interactive elements including a series of pop-up short term screens and smart phone apps connected through a central display node.