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Client: AUSTRALAND / ST HILLIERS / CITTA PROPERTY
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ARM Architecture have contributed two apartment buildings to the Living Carlton residential project in melbourne's inner north, a $300 million urban renewal project spaning 7.5 hectares across three Carlton sites. |
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Living Carlton comprises 246 new Social Housing apartments, 550 private apartments and community health and aged care services and accommodation, together with new public open spaces, parks, a community garden, pedestrian and bicycle pathways and roads. Stage 2's Ambient is the smallest building in the Keppel/Cardigan Precinct. The envelope is stepped from four storeys to the north down to two storeys forms a transition to the surrounding heritage buildings. The small scale and location set back from the street provided an opportunity to design Building 3 as a robust nuggety building. Comprising 27 apartments, a mix of two and one bedroom units over four levels with balconies, wach apartment has been designed to be adaptable for occupation by disabled residents. Ambient is informed by and resonates with the heritage buildings on the site and the contemporary materiality of the other proposed stage 2 buildings. Cast into the concrete facade panels are glazed black tiles. Like mosaic street art, these tiles are the pixels that form a supergraphic fragment of graffiti. From both Cardigan and Keppel Streets, the graphic lends dynamism reminiscent of calligraphy and pop art. By covering the entire facade in a single gesture it both unifies the mass and also creates an ambiguity of scale. Close up, the graphic dissolves back into pixels with fine variations in texture and glossiness. Stage 3 within the Nicholson/Elgin 'Local' precinct facing Canning Street to the west. It is flanked by two larger new residential buildings; private housing and the other public housing – with two existing high rise public housing towers anchoring the precinct on the eastern half of the site. It is part of a ring of high density residential buildings which surround a new public park. Local features an exciting jewel-like facade of mosaic pattern and bold form. A dark bluestone colour to robust concrete panels is peppered with small disks of a gold colour lending to the whole building mass a dynamic, jewel like quality. The geometrical pattern of gold coloured disks with horizontal and vertical silver disks recalls the vivid coursing patterns made by large basalt blocks and mortar joints. The entry foyer and balcony recesses are further highlighted with an elegant warm golden colour to compliment the overall composition. These elements are expressed by a series of pop-out forms that not only activate the facade in forshortening, but also provide sun shade to the living areas. |
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stage 2 Keppel/Cardigan Precinct – “Ambient” Apartments |
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STAGE 3 Elgin/Nicholson Precinct |
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