Nightingale 1.0 – affordable, sustainable housing that builds community

Jeremy McLeod, director of Breathe Architecture and Nightingale Housing managing director, explains the Nightingale Model as being: “designed to deliver affordable and sustainable housing that builds community”.

Yet this straightforward explanation belies the vision, hard work and creative thinking of those behind Nightingale Housing, an organisation reinventing housing fundamentals in Australia.

While typical apartments are often cramped and dark, the Nightingale 1.0’s interiors’ carefully considered design makes an enormous difference to the experience of apartment living, thanks to the mission of creating affordable and sustainable housing that builds community.

Nightingale 1.0 is a true example of architecture created for the purpose of tending to its inhabitants: in the common spaces encouraging, yet not forcing, social interaction, and in the apartments creating beautiful, sustainable, comfortable and functional spaces that respond to residents’ individual needs and lives.

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