The focus of our second FRAME Views: Communal Living video, Melbourne co-living complex Nightingale Village advocates for more communal urban life. It's designed to prompt 'as much sharing as possible.'

The product of a collaboration between Architecture Architecture, Austin Maynard Architects, Breathe, Clare Cousins Architects, Hayball and Kennedy Nolan, Nightingale Village comprises 203 homes spread over six buildings in Melbourne. A FRAME Awards 2023 winner, the co-living complex represents an innovative sustainability- and community-centric approach to urban residential building. As says Dan McKenna, CEO of Nightingale Housing, ‘There is a real appetite out there in the open market for good quality medium-density apartment building.’ Generous private spaces are met with welcoming common areas, and a wide diversity of apartment scales in the complex attract a diversity of residents, representing Melbourne’s demographic spread. ‘Giving people opportunities to live in closer proximity – still with that privacy, that ability to engage – is really necessary,’ explains architect Clare Cousins.

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