Katoomba Civic Centre
This project, was commissioned by the Blue Mountains City Councilto to re-vitalise the Civic Centre and establish new pedestrian links to the impending Cultural Centre behind. In collaboration with JILA and Nobis Architecture, Stage 1, re-makes the upper and lower courtyards, and demolishes 3 rear bays of the Civic Centre to open up this courtyard to the Cultural Centre at the rear. A larger, more public forecourt addresses Katoomba Street and heralds twin portals that frame the courtyard, connect to the Civic Centre and mark the path to the cultural centre. The Civic Centre works, necessarily largely to do with maintenance and BCA compliance issues also give the building a greater public persona, with increased glazing and more active edges.
Brisbane Lights
This is a public art project for Brisbane City Council’s Burnett Lane. At the conceptual stage this project is intended to act as a barometre to the life of the lane. 10 “lantern Lights’ suspended centrally along the length of the lane will each have 1 LED cylinder and 1 motion sensor device, enscapulated within a larger transluscent cylinder lamp. Each sensor will pick up any Pedestrian movement under it and activate a light effect. And so collectively the public space of the lane will reflect and broadcast the life of the city within it.
Apartments – City
Located adjacent to the Eastern Distributor, this apartment building is a hard core urban site. A double wall, containing all the common circulation fronts the ED, and gives the apartments twice the acoustic separation. Most apartments are 2 levels with the bathroom and kitchen adjacent to the cirucaltion, further protecting the bedrooms and living areas, which all open onto the central courtyard.
Apartments – Waverley
Design in association with Hill Thalis, these apartments address 2 very busy streets, Bronte and Carrington Road, in Charing Cross. A north facing deep soil courtyard is formed by 3 buildings. 2 of these buildings are only 4 metres wide and act like blinkers to the 2 busy streets. Thus the sunny courtyard is protected from the traffic and becomes the central focus to the 19 living areas and terraces, which all open out onto it. Both street elevations pick up on the alignments, materiality and vertical fenestration of the old post office on the corner, thus giving a sense of continuity to the old and new building fabric.