Adaptive Reuse Design Sprint 2024

Reimagining the Future of City Living

The Adaptive Reuse Design Sprint 2024 brought together South Australian architecture practitioners for an intensive, collaborative design challenge that explored the transformation of Adelaide’s underused CBD buildings into vibrant, sustainable housing solutions.

Centred around the repurposing of 44 Pirie Street – a 1970s office building designed by Woods Bagot – the Sprint invited participants to consider how adaptive reuse could address urgent housing demand, growing city population needs, and environmental imperatives. Over a condensed timeframe, teams developed innovative proposals judged on criteria including cost-effective housing outcomes, social and urban context, buildability, creativity, and celebration of the existing building fabric.

The result? Four distinct, imaginative design responses that highlight the power of adaptive reuse in creating high-quality, inclusive, and energy-efficient urban living.

For further details of the event check out the UniSA Design Sprint summary page.

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