Description

BVN has recently won the City of Sydney Design Excellence Competition to design a new 198 apartment residential complex in Waterloo.

The site is located between a proposed new park and Gadigal Avenue.

Our winning proposal for the site is based on the creation of a strong ‘Sense of Place’ through the careful balancing of contextual response, residential amenity and building form. Our building is the largest of three buildings proposed on the site with a common basement linking all three buildings. The massing is broken into a series of stacked boxes that have an interconnecting relationship linked by open walkways, slots and landscaped terraces.

The streetscape massing (6-8 stories typically) has a different architectural character from the tower. These forms are more intimate in their architectural character and smaller in massing dimension. The fine grain of the façade and fenestration requirements are offset by the strength in the massing. The key intersection point between the tower and the streetscape massing is exploited with the creation of a large double height communal sky garden on Level 8. Rooftops from level 8 down form a series of cascading gardens. The cascading landscape creates integrated, verdant and diverse sequence of external spaces that complement the architecture and contribute to both the private domain of the residents and the public domain of the neighbourhood and the wider precinct.

Two through site resident links have been created across the site to improve cross block access and views to the Park from the public doamin. Lift lobbies within the building have been designed to be open, linked by multi-storey voids and gardens. Circulation spaces within the building, allow for serendipitous interactions to occur between residents as an extension of the streetscape and create a community of residents.