Buckley Road (2022) — ENABLING AOTEAROA COLLECTIVE HOUSING

Buckley Road

Six friends club together to side-step the excesses of the runaway housing market
- a co-housing project for Wellington!

Four terraced houses settle along the contour and look out to the sun and view. Stepped massing provides recesses for private outdoor space on the north and south of the homes: somewhere to go whichever way the wind blows. The common house is situated at the street edge giving life to suburban pavements, while more private shared gardens terrace the eastern slopes of the property

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“We were chatting about the affordability of housing, the quality of housing, and the fact that we all spent many of our formative years living in flats with our friends, and how much we really valued that kind of familiarity, the socialising and essentially the family that comes when you live with people for a long time.”

“And we'd really be sad to miss that if we had to move in order to own our own home,”

Sawicki Mead for RNZ