Inala Infill Apartments is a QLD State Government Demonstration Project under the Density and Diversity Done Well housing initiative consisting of fourteen dwellings. Suburban and environmental contexts informed a sensitive design response. Buildings are articulated to create layered privacy and a domestic scale. Configuration of the site promotes effective natural light, ventilation, and deep planting, and encourages occupants to engage meaningfully with landscape elements.
The project also demonstrates how utilising Cross Laminated Timber in such a project can positively impact construction timelines in addition to its known advantages of carbon sequestration and Biophilic health benefits. Using mass timber construction in this project saved approximately 170 Tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.
Key project members include Free-Range Landscape Architects, Hyne Timber and XLam, and Kane Constructions. Photography by Christopher Frederick Jones.
