The Suburban Polity
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The suburbs are not made of homes alone, however. The relationships between dwellings, both physically and socially, is of great import to the suburban experience, as can be seen in the necessity of demarcating the boundary between separate dwellings. The challenge of living closer together impacts upon these relationships by intensifying the proximity of dwellings. The design proposals intend to interrogate the oxymoron of the suburban block, developing a formula by which this increased proximity is expressed in harmony with the suburban tradition. Considering the wider suburban neighbourhood, this chapter probes how the interstitial spaces that mediate between the individual dwellings are navigated and celebrated within the project.
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