Parramatta city is located on the west side of Sydney, being part of the Great Sydney
as an important business district.
The site forms part of the three-hectare Parramatta Square redevelopment precinctlocated at the core of the Parramatta Central Business District. Development nearthe site is primarily commercial with a lot of offices, and retail. Development to thenorth comprises of a range of two and three storey commercial buildings. To the east is located the recently constructed Western Sydney University Campus. And to the south-east is the Sydney Water building, which is a high-rise commercial office tower.
TECHNICAL FACTS :
Project : «phive» civic center in parramatta (australia)
Program : the building house a library, a discovery and exhibition centre, the council chambers, meeting rooms, a café and outdoor terrace spaces.
Client: Parramatta City Council
Design lead architect: Manuelle Gautrand Architecture (PARIS)
Associated Australian Architects: design inc (sydney) lacoste & stevenson (sydney)
The design of this project was a journey of discovery. The original concept was half submerged into the rise of the landscape. As the concept navigated all the challenging conditions of site / environment and budget, a contradictory strategy emerged. There seemed no reason to hide the building in the landscape. It was located in a rural setting, not in a natural forest. The building took on a monumental form of materiality and structure, anchored with unapologetic strength of presence into its landscape.
Architecturally, earthships form part of the discipline of adaptive reuse. They embrace a style of architecture developed in the late 20th century, which aims to utilise both natural and upcycled materials to create passive, sustainable, and often off-grid dwellings. Here, with Luigi Rosselli Architects’ Earth-Ship, that concept of adaptive reuse and connection to the environment is extended with the revitalisation of an existing home whose original design was akin to that of a drilling platform, hovering above, and entirely disconnected from its craggy and precipitous surroundings.
Luigi Rosselli has never much been a fan of ‘pole houses’, constructed with the intention of admiring the view from above while denying contact and symbiosis with the natural habitat the house occupies. As such, the aim with Earthship was to bring the existing two storeys of the house down to earth by adding a further two storeys below them to create a direct link to the garden.
This site is certainly one of the most unusual we have ever come across. There is no backyard. Instead a rocky ravine within the cliffs brings the Pacific Ocean right into its core.
The house is an extension of its location and could not reasonably sit anywhere else. It grows out of the rock organically and responds to the gorge that defines its base.
The inspiration behind Pavilion stems from Gardam’s long-standing fascination with Brutalist architecture. In particular, the honesty and monolithic sense of grandeur. The façade is open, expansive and inviting, drawing focus first to the curved entry, followed by the beams which compel people to continue through the interior until arriving at the internal courtyard of the atrium. The atrium, in turn, transitions to the Australian bushland outside.
This project is a private residence located in the links Golfcourse development in Thirteenth Beach, a small coastal town located along the Victorian Coastline.
Being located in a fairly ‘residential’ housing development, we responded to the clients brief by creating an inward focused, Courtyard house. Providing the residents with a sense of seclusion within a rapidly developing housing estate.
From the exterior, the house is clad in a black stained timber, creating a simple, solid form when viewed from the street.
Tying together the old and the new, Picket House engages with its streetscape and surrounding heritage character. Subtle material transitions between the existing and the new acknowledges its contextual relationship.
Sited in a suburban context, the house’s corner site provokes a dialogue between its occupants and the surrounding community through the archetypal picket fence. Offering opportunities for social engagement between the layering of fence, façade, existing and alteration – the rhythm of the pickets establishes moments of exposure and concealment between the street and inner private gardens.
Central to Judith Neilson’s vision for the JNIJI is the concept of understanding history and influencing the future of society through independent, investigative journalism and the discussion of ideas.
These JNIJI objectives align to the conservation, restoration or adaptation of two heritage listed buildings and the addition of a new element.
Âpé Yakitori Bar attempts to provide authenticity to a standardised, early 2000’s tenancy shell, a prevalent and often challenging typology that today dominates our cities.
Yakitori, literally translated as grilled bird, remains one of the most traditional and efficient practices of cooking. Each individual part of the chicken, or animal, or vegetable (in its modern interpretation) is utilised, from the heart to the thigh, liver and neck. It is the act of deconstruction to base constituent parts without wastage.
Rammed earth, concrete and timber are celebrated design heroes at this newly built house in Blackburn.
The site presented interesting design challenges due to its location within a Significant Landscape Overlay in a unique urban pocket of Melbourne. Our response was driven by a focus on family living and the use of sustainable materials. Australian timbers were applied throughout the home, whilst rammed earth blade walls form deep reveals to create protected interior living spaces without compromising access to natural light. These walls offer further protection from the western sun due to the inherent thermal mass properties of rammed earth, along with the burnished concrete slab.
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