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Residential Series: Looking at the issues affecting the design and rebuild of our residential structures and all that is needed to design the most liveable and sustainable homes possible.
Launched in 2017 as part of the Architecture & Design publishing and news network, Talking Architecture & Design podcast interviews industry leaders, innovators, personalities and a range of industry movers and shakers. With no subject that is off-limits, we talk to those that not only make change happen, but also those that turn that change into industry norms and trends. In this issue we are featuring our Residential podcast series, proudly partnered by Stormtech.
EPISODE 61: TROY CREIGHTON, MD OF STORMTECH, ON WHY LOWERING OUR WATER USAGE IS NOW MORE CRUCIAL THAN IT’S EVER BEEN
The managing director of Stormtech, Troy Creighton, talks about Stormtech’s history – its humble beginnings and the interesting back-story of the NSW South Coast company’s stellar growth.
Troy also covers a number of other areas including his passion – manufacturing to proper standards in Australia as well as the current state of the industry, and how the continuing move towards higher levels of sustainability is set to change the future of his company and water usage in general across this wide, brown land.
EPISODE 52: KOICHI TAKADA TALKS ABOUT SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND HOW COVID-19 HAS FOREVER CHANGED
HOW WE WORK, LIVE AND DESIGN OUR BUILDINGS
Koichi Takada is a member of a new generation of architects that aim to ‘naturalise’ architecture in the urban environment – an approach he developed after living in cities of high urbanisation: Tokyo, New York, and London.
In this interview, Takada talks about his latest projects, why bringing the ‘outside-in’ is the new black, and how COVID-19 has altered human activity for good and what this means for architects and designers both here and abroad.
EPISODE 46: KRIS DAFF TALKS ABOUT WHY RENT-WITH-THE-OPTION-TO-BUY IS THE SMART WAY TO ADDRESS HOUSING ISSUES
Builder and developer Kris Daff is the managing director of two progressive building firms – the first is Make Ventures, a Melbourne-based property development and investment group focusing on large scale urban renewal projects and the second is Assemble Communities, an end-to-end rent-with-the-option-to-buy developer and community manager responsible for the introduction of a new and exciting housing model gaining significant interest across the country.
He explains why the social, human and societal benefits of building housing for rentto-buy schemes far outweigh by a wide country mile any arguments over potential lower or for that matter, slower profits.