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Arkadia Housing Complex in Sydney
13 May 2022
Design: Breathe Architecture, DKO Architecture and Oculus
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Photos: Tom Ross
Arkadia Housing Complex, NSW
Arkadia is a collaboration from Breathe Architecture, DKO Architecture and Oculus.

At its heart Arkadia is about ecological sustainability and social sustainability. It’s about memory and place.
Arkadia is the first building in the country to be built with nearly half a million recycled bricks, an almost entirely carbon-neutral skin. Arkadia uses recycled materials and passive solar-design technologies to stand as a beacon to a low carbon future. To strengthen community Arkadia is broken into 4 buildings, 4 cores, 4 right-sized, connected communities.

The 4 communities are woven together by a single sinuous skin formed from carefully crafted recycled brickwork. Each building has its own space to come together, its own productive garden, its own lift lobby, its own address and its own community.

Defence Housing Australia (DHA) has been providing quality homes for Defence families for over 30 years. DHA wanted Arkadia to set a new benchmark in multi-residential buildings. They wanted housing that prioritised environmental and social sustainability.
The challenge was to design 152 places to call home, 85 homes for defence personnel and their families and 67 for new residents. To achieve ...