Stout, JulieFullerton, Bri2025-04-132025-04-132025https://hdl.handle.net/2292/71885Auckland lacks the diversity of affordable housing options to allow extended families to live together. Whether it be for social or cultural needs or for economic reasons, household compositions are changing, and this requires strategic housing design. Auckland’s current focus on prioritising medium density housing fails to accommodate larger households and families as they evolve. The gap in the market for medium density housing that facilitates multi-generational living necessitates flexible and adaptable floor plans, the inclusion of outdoor spaces, wheelchair accessibility, and thresholds that support privacy and social connections. Through design-led research and research-led design, a blend of collages and drawings help to examine both multi-generational living and medium density housing. Considering New Zealand’s context of escalating living costs and a growing and ageing population, the research responds to the question: How can the design of medium density housing facilitate multi-generational living and optimise social connectivity? The author draws from the literature on multi-generational living and medium density housing, proposing a hypothetical project in Hobsonville Point that caters to changing household needs while enhancing nature and neighbourhood connectivity. This thesis critiques the existing regulations for the project’s selected two-thirds of a hectare site, offering a conceptual design of twenty-four terraced houses to inspire future development.Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htmMulti-generational livingmedium density housingflexibilityadaptabilitythresholdsprivacyaccessibilitysocial connectionThesisCopyright: the authorAttribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/