Project Overview
52 O’Dea was an invited design excellence competition. The scheme interrogated established principles to create a building that exceeds the design objectives in a clear and simple way. The result is a beautiful and crafted building with a clear logic behind the building form and facade.
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Project Creator
Team
Simon Fleet, Sean Choo, Ruth Kealy, Doug Hamersley, Cho Ling, Lorelle Yap
Project Brief
A residential flat development in Waterloo, a growing suburb on the edge of the Sydney CBD. Located at the junction of 2 newly created civic avenues and bounded on one side by a newly created park, the project involves circa 200 high quality apartment units and retail spaces on the ground level.
Project Innovation/Need
Sculpted by the sun the elegant form is shaped by the environment to maximise environmental performance. We worked with engineers to devise a high performing fritted glass facade that incorporates innovative organic solar cells developed by the University of Newcastle. The colourful facade and ziggurat form, driven by sustainable design, creates a joyful backdrop to the future public park.
Design Challenge
In striving for design excellence, we challenged several planning controls to achieve better amenity for the future residents. The proposed building differentiates itself from surroundings and embodies the spirit of a genuinely ‘liveable’ habitat that responds to the local conditions.
Sustainability
In terms of sustainability we believe in passive design strategies and endeavoured to utilise passive energy sources in the design of the building. This design strategy resulted in 90% of the units meeting solar access requirements through the sculpting of the building form.100% of the units achieve cross ventilation through the incorporation of an internal courtyard. Passive cooling is achieved through the podium garden and ground floor pool, this reduces the requirement for air conditioning within the units and in parallel allows for a lower carbon footprint.Innovative solar generation technologies are being investigated in conjunction with the University of Newcastle to incorporate organic solar cells in fritting of the glass.
Architecture - Proposed
This award celebrates the design process and product of planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, and aesthetic considerations. Consideration given for material selection, technology, light and shadow. The project can be a concept, tender or personal project, i.e. proposed space.
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