Andrew Martel

Human Rights, Disability, and Construction: How responsive are building regulations to changing community attitudes towards housing for people with a disability?

A Martel, V Paton-Cole

Journal article  |  2022  |  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

Responsibility for housing people with a disability has rested with government and the charity-medical model of disability encoura..

Lifting Standards in Victorian Building Industry

Paulo Vaz-Serra, Andrew MARTEL

Media  |  2022

An architecture of inclusion: Can the profession adapt to the diversity of design demanded by people with a disability?

Kirsten Day, Andrew MARTEL

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Architectural Science and User Experience: How can Design Enhance the Quality of Life

From the 1840s, Australia encouraged the committing of people with disabilities to institutions and asylums. By the 1970s the pref..

Peer support work for people experiencing mental distress attending the emergency department: Exploring the potential

Catherine Brasier, Helena Roennfeldt, Bridget Hamilton, Andrew Martel, Nicole Hill, Anthony Stratford, Sally Buchanan-Hagen, Louise Byrne, David Castle, Nadine Cocks, Larry Davidson, Lisa Brophy

Journal article  |  2021  |  EMERGENCY MEDICINE AUSTRALASIA

OBJECTIVE: This study explored the benefits and limitations of employing peer support workers, who utilise their own lived experie..

Beyond the pandemic: the role of the built environment in supporting people with disabilities work life

Andrew Martel, Kirsten Day, Mary Ann Jackson, Saumya Kaushik

Journal article  |  2021  |  ARCHNET-IJAR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has engendered changes in previously unimaginable timeframes, leading to new ways of working, which..

Designing for neurodiversity: Reimagining the home for a covid normal life

K Day, A Martel

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the 37th Annual ARCOM Conference, ARCOM 2021

As cities went into lockdown in response to COVID-19, for many, the role of the home in everyday life expanded. Activities that wo..

Design features that reduce the use of seclusion and restraint in mental health facilities: a rapid systematic review

Sanne Oostermeijer, Catherine Brasier, Carol Harvey, Bridget Hamilton, Cath Roper, Andrew Martel, Justine Fletcher, Lisa Brophy

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ OPEN

UNLABELLED: Increasing efforts are being made to prevent and/or eliminate the use of seclusion and restraint in mental health faci..

Discretion versus prescription: Assessing the spatial impact of design regulations in apartments in Australia

David Allouf, Andrew Martel, Alan March

Journal article  |  2020  |  ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING B-URBAN ANALYTICS AND CITY SCIENCE

The Victorian Government introduced the Better Apartment Design Guidelines in 2017. The introduction of these new regulations is a..

Design-to-live or Design-to-build? The impact of delegated design responsibility in Melbourne’s high-rise residential buildings

Giorgio Marfella, Andrew Martel

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Structures and Architecture - Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders : Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA 2019), July 24-26, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.

This set of book and multimedia device is intended for a global readership of researchers and practitioners, including architects,..

Private Developers and the Public Good: Can a Socially Constructed Market Deliver Quality Affordable Housing for Australian Cities?

Andrew Martel, Carolyn Whitzman, Alexander Sheko

Journal article  |  2019  |  URBAN POLICY AND RESEARCH

Australian government housing policy relies on the private housing industry contributing to the supply of affordable and social ho..