Swayn Open Research
The Alastair Swayn Foundation is committed to information sharing and transparency of the research it funds. We believe that research supported by the Foundation should be made discoverable and readily accessible online. The Swayn Open Research repository provides a place for researchers to promptly have their findings published on an open access basis, to benefit the architecture and design community.
A Home, Not Housing: Empowering Women Through Co-design for a Good-Home Design Blueprint
This report responds to the critical shortage of social and affordable housing in Australia, where over 800,000 people live in 436,300 dwellings - 62% of whom are women.
Designing Australia's Public Housing: Exhibition and Research Initiative
The report offers a series of principles to guide a new era of affordable and social housing in Australia, helping to shape future housing policy and investment through the lens of good design.
Retain, Repair, Reinvest: An International Catalogue of Precast Panel Refurbishment Projects
This is the first research report to compile a global catalogue of precast panel refurbishment projects, aiming to inspire a shift in how aging public housing stock is viewed and managed.
Learning from Corviale
The Alastair Swayn Foundation – RMIT Architecture Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome provides an extraordinary opportunity for early and mid-career Australian architects, landscape architects, and design professionals to advance their practice on an international stage. The Fellow is awarded an eight-week residential experience at the American Academy in Rome.
Lived-In: A Post-Occupancy Evaluation of St Albans Housing
St Albans Housing, a mixed-tenure social and specialist disability accommodation, underwent a POE to assess its economic and social impact through interviews, lived-condition drawings, and cost-benefit analysis.