Vivid artwork and architecture have intertwined in a Griffith Master of Architecture student’s research project, which aims to “connect people to place without four walls and a pitched roof”.
Nunan presenting her thesis research.
A native of the Byron Bay region, artist Verity Nunan co-authored The Journal of Public Space article ‘What the mapping of Byron Bay Shire’s informal settlement teaches us about having a home without having a house’ with Griffith Architecture and Design Associate Professor Karine Dupre, and based her research thesis on the homeless people of the Byron Bay and Brunswick Heads areas.
“My research is to make more significant and meaningful architecture in the future, but you need the groundwork. Research is a powerful tool for us to truly understand the world around us,” Nunan said.
Nunan created a floorplan to connect homeless and non-homeless people.
“As architects we often want to solve homelessness issues by making houses, which is
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