ReHousing Conference and Exhibition, RMIT 2006

The term housing, as opposed to the individual house, infers a capacity for repeatability and collectivity. This might be contrasted with the individual private house which is frequently viewed as a personal indulgence without public implications.

This project sought to test the argument that the individual house does, when approached in a certain way represents that capacity for broader impact. A process of reflection on, collecting and cataloguing of these projects assists that process. The project collected selected built house projects by the five members of Antarctica group and represent them in a catalogue form which abstracted them from their unique context. It aimed to foreground their spatial arrangement types, and their possibility for repetition or transformation.

The project may be viewed in the spirit of plan pattern books for small houses, or primers for example housing types. The project represents a case study in the role of the small individual house in the broader housing context.