form apartments
Zetland, Sydney, NSW, Australia
In Collaboration with Bolles + Wilson & Nation Associates
Documentation in association with Group GSA
Completion Date: 2005
Use: Residential,
240 Apartments, 11 SoHos, 6 Retail Suites
Client: The Waltcorp Group
Cost: $70 million
Site Area: 6,784 sqm
Gross Floor Area: 26,000 sqm
FORM is one of an ensemble of projects located within Victoria Park at
the fringe of Green Square. The design was the result of genuine architectural
collaboration. The design team comprised Turner + Associates from Sydney,
Bolles + Wilson from Germany and Nation Associates from Melbourne, achieving
natural diversity within a unified framework.
Regular design workshops in Muenster provided an esquisse methodology
that has produced a strategy both full of character and flexible in terms
of its programmatic content. The site concept is a family of four forms
on the urban block that respond to street edge conditions, public open
space and orientation producing architecture that is considered at an
urban scale, while at the same time giving due consideration
to each individual unit. These forms are folded, sculpted, carved, and
have surfaces overlaid with a variety of balcony formations. The colour
selection enhances the volumetric composition of the precast concrete
surfaces.
Charcoal and white are used to highlight building form and massing while
tonal shifts of green help animate the facades. Increased drama is created
by the use of supergraphics.
FORM comprises 240 apartments, 11 SoHos and 6 retail suites and building
heights range from four to fifteen storeys.
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