Daceyville

DACEYVILLE

SYDNEY NSW | 1912-1916

NSW Housing Board (William H Foggitt, John Sulman and John Hennessy and HJ Maiden)and Samuel George Thorp (initial design competition winner)

Daceyville is based on the British Garden City movement idea of a series of selfsufficient,satellite communities that are linked by road and rail to the central city through a greenbelt. This radical design was to bring together the benefits of both countryside and city to provide an alternative for the industrial working class employed on farms or in ‘crowded, unhealthy cities.’ Daceyville is an integrated design of family homes, wide landscaped streets and parkland, supported by significant community infrastructure. The street design mixes broad ‘Paris’ boulevards and smaller pedestrian scaled residential streets that include cul-de-sacs to foster community interaction. This is supported by houses having large, fenceless front gardens which break down the boundaries between public and private space. The houses are designed in the Federation style, with big windows in most rooms to promote light and air access, and large verandas for sleeping out in warmer weather.