Architect Chris Shields has a long standing commitment to using his skills to improve the social housing sector. He is immersed in the process of extracting efficient space and material usage within limited budgets. Shields has a specialist expertise in crisis accommodation. While designing for tenants who need somewhere to live for the short-term (as [...]
On Friday 12th of September 2014, the Hon, Heidi Victoria MLA, Minister of the Arts, Minister for Women’s Affairs and Minister for Consumer Affairs, launched the Laughlin Avenue unit accommodations in Nunawading; the latest accommodations in the Housing Choices Australia Projects for people with disabilities living independently. The units showcase another successful project by CMSArchitects, [...]
In June 2015, Housing Choices Australia officially launched the Dunlop St accommodation in Wangaratta, which was another successful project by cmsArchitects. The brief to cmsArchitects was to design a dwelling which houses five people with disabilities. One of the key issues is to implement disability compliant design. The design focused on the easy access and [...]
