Living Together at Davison Collaborative
Davison Collaborative is located in Brunswick on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne’s inner north. This award-winning project follows a collaborative model of development, similar to Danish cohousing. The owners pooled their resources and professional expertise in architecture, sustainability, and project management; together, they created three town houses on what was a single residential block.
The goal was to create homes of quality, with excellent environmental performance. Powered by solar and battery-stored energy, they are entirely electric.
We sat down with resident and Archier Director Chris Gilbert to hear what life is like at Davison Collaborative, giving us a sense of his family’s home and their experience developing this project.
“That idea of community through the type of building you live in is interesting and really joyful.”
– Chris Gilbert, Davison Collaborative resident and Archier Director
Development Name: Davison Collaborative
Designer: Archier Architects
Developer: Hip v Hype Developments
Film produced by: RMIT PlaceLab Brunswick’s Living Together Research Project
Narrated by: Rebecca Roke
Interviewee: Chris Gilbert
Filming and video production: Matt Quattro from OnQ Media
Living room artwork credits (L to R): Rosie Hastie, Camilla Perkins, Saskia Wilson, Melanie Macilwain and Kayleigh Heydon.
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Chris Gilbert’s Davison Collaborative home.