Modest in Millers Point

摘要

What has our heritage to teach us about low-cost housing design? Affordable housing is not rocket science. Here is a quick comment on obvious design principles of one of the very first architect-designed modern low-cost housing in New South Wales in the 20th-century terrace at numbers 1 to 63 Windmill Street, Millers Point. It was built in 1907 to the design of the architect William Foggitt, in the office of the NSW Government Architect Walter Vernon. Rented on a long term basis to the family of maritime workers and single workers, this successful arrangement lasted until 1984. (Conservation Management Plan, September 2016 by GML Heritage Pty Ltd)