It could have been the GFC. It could be greater consciousness – if not conscience – about our residential environmental footprint.
It could just be that we’re sick of vacuuming hectares of house.
It could be the sobering cost of furnishing, heating and cooling great hulking domiciles.
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Whatever; after becoming world champions of building the biggest homes on the planet by 2008 – and at an average of 250 square metres, Melbourne’s new housing had become the biggest in Australia – we’re starting to get over ”the wow factor” of scale in domestic space and starting to question if we need all those rooms when the average household is only 2.5 people.
”Do you really need all that room?” is a question architects are asking more forcefully and frequently these days. Tony Battersby, of SJB Architects and a council member of the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian chapter, says ”more-thoughtful architects are challenging client briefs with the proposition that rather than building volume for volume’s sake … wouldn’t it be better to have a house of beautiful proportion, of beautifully contained space?”
Read more at: http://smh.domain.com.au/architects/architects-think-big-with-small-houses-20120511-1yg4v.html
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