From dual occupancy to 27 dwellings, site capacity tested in drawings before you commit.
Book a Feasibility SessionTownhouses are where Melbourne's housing arguments get settled: more homes on the same land, without towers and without sprawl. For the owner of a block that could hold more, or the small developer building to keep, the questions are always the same three: what will the site yield, what will the council approve, and will the result be worth owning when it is finished? Architecture answers all three, and this practice has been answering them since before townhouses were fashionable.
The first number every multi-dwelling project needs is the unvarnished one: what the site actually carries once setbacks, overshadowing, landscaping, parking and the planning scheme have their say. We test that capacity at feasibility, in drawings, before purchase where possible, because a site bought on hopeful arithmetic is the most expensive mistake in this lane. Sometimes the straight answer is two generous homes instead of three tight ones, and we will say so.
A capacity number that survives the planning scheme. A design that sells or rents on its plans, not despite them. Consultant teams coordinated rather than collected. And a practice comfortable at every scale from a backyard dual-occ to a 27-dwelling site.
VicSmart, ResCode and multi-dwelling pathways.
Character and heritage checks before purchase.
The townhouse planning article, in full.