Launching of ideas: living in the yard
May 31st, 2012
The exhibition was conceived and constructed by Christian Tietz, Greg Norman and Tasman Munro and set out designs that will allow the use of the yard area around houses to…
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Constructing and maintaining houses
May 29th, 2012
HH helped supply data and experience to assist Peter Phibbs complete this paper. The National Indigenous Housing Guide is noted as an important tool to improve housing: If used in…
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Venice Update: Bridging health and housing
May 29th, 2012
. . See if you can pick the connections in the image below. What is the story about??? . . .
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Cracks appearing ?
May 29th, 2012
BY: NATASHA ROBINSON From: The Australian May 29, 2012 12:00AM CONSTRUCTION firms contracted to build houses in Aboriginal communities may be tempted to “overcharge and under-deliver” as flawed remote housing…
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Health Hardware
May 29th, 2012
In a back to the future moment, HH has dug up a simple drawing done in the early 1990’s that describes an example of how the ‘stuff’ of housing, infrastructure…
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Yardmaster comes to the city
May 27th, 2012
The Yardmaster exhibition (see EVENTS FOR DETAILS) brings the ideas, bits and pieces to the city for all to see what has been built in rural and remote areas of…
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When the detail is important …
May 1st, 2012
When houses have high populations, people are poor and can’t afford baby baths, laundry tubs become a good place to wash young children. If washing machine waste water has to…
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Erasing the Dots
May 1st, 2012
HH heard rumblings about the presentation material presented to the conference. Several reports about the HH paper were made public but we notice that a scant record of the conference…
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Venice Biennale thoughts progressing….
May 1st, 2012
Stay tuned for updates on what ideas will be presented and how in Venice. Some very rough working sketches are provided below to confuse and embarrass. HH will be putting…
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Indigenous housing quality in South Australia
April 21st, 2012
According to the ‘contract’ between the Australian and South Australian governments under the $5.5 billion National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing, all houses shall comply with the Australian Building Code,…
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Have you been to school?
April 18th, 2012
HH encountered this lack of basic facilities when our partners CHDS (Nepal) and Rotary were trying to establish a tooth brushing program, in parallel with the two current sanitation projects…
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Australian ambassador to Nepal visits the sanitation project
April 14th, 2012
Greeted by the CHDS, the village construction team and the Bhattedande villagers Ms Grace embarked on some ‘toilet trekking’ around the village. Inspecting toilets, septic tank systems and the biogas…
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