Edmondson Park
Type
Live
Use
Residential apartments
Affordable housing
Year
2020-ongoing
Location
Edmondson Park, NSW
Client
Aland B+W
Design Team
Frank Stanisic
Jason Nowosad
Seugnèt Viljoen
Collaborators
Sturt Noble Associates
Illustrations
Alain Bellare
The project comprises three buildings on two separate sites adjacent to a vast future parkland in an evolving urban environment that is centred around a new railway station and future town centre. The design concept for the northern site is for two buildings around a summer and winter courtyard that vary in height to respond to the surrounding future context. On the southern side, the design concept is to create an strong urban marker with a linear building along the northern edge of the parkland, seen in-the-round, with a communal roof terrace.
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The area is undergoing transition from rural to residential uses with a mix of new two-storey dwellings, and residential apartments. . It avoids the overworked, ‘fruit salad’, approach of other recent apartment developments in the Edmondson Park Town Centre.
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The project is an opportunity to create an aesthetic based on environmental and urban design principles, untainted by sentimentality and contextual gestures. The appearance of the buildings avoids the overused expression of cellular, crate-like elements. Special attention has been given to materiality of external elements.
Front and rear elevations have a varied and fine grain expression that avoids the ‘fruit salad’ or ‘cut and paste’ appearance of many flat buildings in the Edmondson Park Town Centre.
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Built form is modulated with recesses to create a vertical elements that break down the building’s mass and bulk. The building elements are further articulated with facetted walls and balconies, picket balustrades, and vertical battens to add architectural expression and shading.
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Wall and balustrades of all buildings are generally constructed from precast concrete panels, offset with aluminium picket balustrades and vertical aluminium batten screens. Face bricks are used at ground level to enclose private terraces.