Get It Right With Undercover Architect
Designing for a Wide Block of Land - Episode 3 (Season 6 - Designing for difficult sites )
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:30:29
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Synopsis
Request your free E-Guide “The Wide Block” which includes a transcript of this podcast >>> www.undercoverarchitect.com/wideblock Do you have a wide block? And do you know how to design your new home or renovation to make the most of it? When it comes to wide blocks, these can occur in different configurations. There’s of course the more generous blocks. Ones that have nice wide frontages – so generally 15m plus – and are overall quite large in area. They can present challenges in how you arrange the home on the block so that it’s not dwarfed by the overall block itself. So it doesn’t look like a little dot on a great big horizon, basically! At the other extreme, there’s the configurations where the block is wide and shallow. There are a lot of areas where subdivision has created blocks with a wide frontage, and their overall dimensions mean that a home will be strung out with most of it exposed to the street. I’m going to focus mainly on those that are shallow and wide – so almost the opposi