IGNIS Design Group

“For Lease For Living - reimagining retail tenancies and residential opportunities”

Open retail tenancies lay as empty carcasses around Brisbane City, with glazed storefronts used as mirrors for the homeless, and eaves as shelter from the sun.

What would it look like to transform these spaces into liveable conditions connected by protected green spaces, weaving between bike and pedestrian-only infrastructure? Public and semi-public spaces mediate the in-between of once ‘storefronts’ to create a humble communal patio used by the displaced.

Generative AI through suggests one way this could be executed - designed by

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