FOR SALE

Do you want to buy one of these Town Houses?

The client and I are now in a phase of ‘putting a marketing campaign together’.

PLEASE DO NOT HESSITATE TO CONTACT ME OF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ONE OF THESE HOUSES OR INVESTING IN THE DEVELOPMENT.

WE ARE OPEN TO EVERY ENQUIRY.

We have lots of 3D images…Done by two different 3D designers.The images are quite stylised, and the garden planting doesn’t look right… but there are heaps of images showing the form of the Houses.

The form of these houses might not be to every one’s taste…

Some people don’t like the ‘modern boxy look’, but I couldn’t put a roof on the houses without making the first floors much smaller.

Making the houses smaller jeopardises the financial feasibility of the project.

It’s called ‘The Equation’:

• The build cost per sq/m goes up when there are less sq/m being built.
• The sale price goes down when there are less sq/m being sold.
• There is a point at which the build cost is the same as the sale price.
• The sale price is dictated by the market so you can’t just ‘ask for more’.
• You have to build more. Living space is cheaper than kitchens & bathrooms… So, increase the living space to increase sale price.

As insurance against the ‘build cost’ being more than the sale price, we made the units 265sqm. That’s 28.53 squares.

Most new Units & Town Houses are 180-220sqm or 19-24 squares. (A square is 10ft x 10ft = 9,29sqm)

We have a massive living area on both floors.

Building the first floors smaller may not have reduced the price to construct anyway:

• The normal thing is to have a larger ground floor and a smaller first floor.
• This means there are separate roofs for ground floor and first floor.
• It usually means there is an eave and an eaves gutter
• This would have increased the roofing complexity and material.
• The main roof area is 130sqm, and there is a bit over the garage. A 450mm wide eave would have increased the roof area by 25sqm and eaves need linings.

The roofs of these units are very simple and efficient, in comparison to a hipped roof with valley gutters and wide eaves. They may not be cheaper, but they are better.

There is extra expense in the box gutter and parapet walls, but they were required to create the ’form’.

As a bonus they make the roof very safe to be on when cleaning out the gutter. No ladders or telescopic vacuums.

Instead of reducing the upper floors, I reduced the ground floors. Then ‘popped out’ boxes to gain the space we needed upstairs.

Reducing the ground floors increases the size of the gardens which all have significant courtyards.

The ground floor living spaces are well connected and flow out to the courtyards. This creates a ‘complete site worth’, which means every sqm of the site is functional. There is no part of the site wasted because the ‘Building Design’, did not capitalise on it!.

It is common for new Units and Town Houses on the hills around Launceston to be disconnected from their site because it’s so steep.

There is a lot more ‘living on the deck’, not in the garden these days… But decks are small?

Hard to get to and disjointed gardens become unused and costly to maintain. Can’t leave small kids alone down there either…

No.7–9 Summit Road is on the crest of the hill. It’s not a steep site. It doesn’t have any decks… It has fantastic outdoor family living and entertaining spaces as extensions to the ground floor.

The four Town Houses are three bedrooms, but they can fit five comfortably… We just have to work out the parking requirements?

Because I couldn’t fit hopped roofs; I decided to create ‘cuboid forms’ with enough ‘complication’ in them to address all viewpoints:

• From the street the development has balance.
• Unit 1 & 2 face the street. They are a mirror of each other with slightly differently placed windows.
• The ‘boxes popping out’ of the upper floors are: ‘Floor area needed inside’.
• The boxes create interest. They create the complexity of the ‘cuboid form’.
• When the form of a house is not boring to look at, the cladding doesn’t have to be expensive…cheap cladding and flat walls …’looks yuck!’
• I decided to design the ‘form’ to feature itself…
• If the boxes were removed the ‘form’, would be very ‘bland’.
• The side elevations have been designed as well. Often side walls are very basic and don’t look great.
• This Town House Development looks great from every angle.

The ‘visual complexity’ of the form of the buildings is ‘on purpose’.

I had to choose a style that allowed maximum floor area to insure the venture against ‘The Equation’.

In the end bland, basic, cheap looking houses don’t sell well either.

I am looking forward to seeing if these houses ‘make it out of the ground’. If you can help us with progressing this project into construction, please do not hesitated to contact me.