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Episode 2.1: A Home Should Last a Lifetime But Most Don’t with Dr Tanja Tyvimaa
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We design homes for one version of your life. Then life happens.
Australia spends around $500 million a year adapting homes after a fall or injury, not counting the costs when households grow, shrink or shift in what they need. These costs show up later but they start with how we design and build.
In this episode, I speak with Finland-based housing specialist Dr Tanja Tyvimaa about why housing needs to work across a lifetime, not just at move-in. She is involved with the Carbon Neutral Tampere 2030 initiative, with work centred on the building life cycle in residential development across municipal government, private developers and investors, and has led projects at universities in Finland, Australia and the US.
From everyday design decisions to system-level choices, the question is simple.
Why are we still building homes most people will outgrow?