Homes for All: The "New Small Homes Service"

This project addresses Sydney’s housing crisis by reviving Robin Boyd’s Small Homes Service with a modern twist. Inspired by Boyd’s approach, this project adapts the concept to create affordable, flexible housing types beyond single-family homes, targeting Sydney’s "missing middle" housing needs. Cockatoo Island serves as the experimental site, where compact, community-focused living spaces—such as duplexes, terrace houses, and mid-rise apartments—integrate with public and natural surroundings. Through hands-on experience building full-scale model homes within a CLT structure, students learn affordable, sustainable, and modular design principles, preparing them to address real-world challenges in creating inclusive, resilient urban housing.

Prefabrication Hub: The factory on Cockatoo Island produces sustainable, affordable stud walls for adaptable housing, empowering students to design and build modular homes that address Sydney's housing crisis with practical solutions

An overhead crane delivers materials to Cockatoo Island’s factory, where prefabricated wall panels are assembled

This picture portraits the section of the model house in the context of Cockatoo Island

This picture illustrates the section of the whole structure

This picture illustrates the 1:100 plan