Project Overview

East Village is Australia’s most progressive and engaging lifestyle community, located in Victoria Park, Zetland, NSW. This meticulously planned project is the culmination of the visions of a carefully selected team which includes Turner Architects, interior designer Koichi Takada and landscape architect HASSELL, working closely in conjunction with the developer PAYCE.

Organisation

PAYCE Consolidated Limited

Team

PAYCE Consolidated Limited, Developer
Ionic Management, Project Manager
Turner, Architect
Koichi Takada Architects, Interior Designer
HASSELL Studio, Landscape Architect
Wallaringa Consulting, Project Manager - Retail
Dasco Constructions, Builder

Project Brief

East Village is leading edge apartments combined with a unique and vibrant urban marketplace where people meet, mingle, shop, dine out and enjoy a range of leisure options.

The residential includes 206 apartments and a 6,500sqm Sky Park that offers residents shade booths, BBQ areas and a communal vegetable garden.

Kochi Takada’s approach to interior design is to push the boundaries of perception, which is highly evident in his work throughout the residential aspects of the development. Bringing a Japanese sensibility to Australian projects, his signature is incorporating organic elements into the design, exemplified by the tree and forest effects created through East Village.
The collective team has been pivotal in the planning and creation of East Village. More than simply bricks and mortar, East Village is a thriving, living place catering for a rich diversity of people and demographics.

Project Innovation/Need

We live in an intensively dense, urban context which is very exciting. So we have designed East Village as a series of low-rise residential buildings sitting around a communal open space; one that has the effective scale of an urban park at 6,500sqm. Because of the vast horizontal surface of the project – nearly 1.6 hectares – it means the shallower depth residential component sits around the perimeter frames and contains this vast common space. This ensures residents have a privatised park that’s their immediate amenity – their broader context and broader amenity lies in the fantastic public domain infrastructure which is found within Victoria Park.
Kochi Takada’s approach to interior design is to push the boundaries of perception, bringing a Japanese sensibility to Australian projects, his signature is incorporating organic elements into the design, exemplified by the tree and forest effects created through East Village.
Hassell, responsible for the landscape architecture, have created an urban oasis and a true park environment, elevated six storeys in the air. The Sky Park, a remarkable feature at East Village, ensures residents have access to something special and unique.

Design Challenge

Building on the idea of living on a park that is built 15 metres above ground level, the interior concept is based on forests, designed to draw the natural landscape inside and create continuity and balance between the external and interior environment.

East Village seeks to enhance the experience of the surrounding area. It makes the most of the natural assets, such as the reserve at street level and improves the surrounding street character.

Spacious living and dining areas seamlessly merge with the roomlike terraces with environmental sustainability principles underpinning the apartment design throughout.

They feature cross ventilation, optimal solar access, operable sun screens and double glazing where it is needed.

Sustainability

East Village Residential has been awarded a 4 Star Green Star – Multi Unit Residential Design v1 Certified Rating.
The tri-generation plant at East Village is at the core of energy initiatives and is essentially a gas turbine that generates power. The top of the building has a 6,500 sqm rooftop garden and the energy costs for facilities on site are significant reduced by going off-grid with tri-generation power.
Sustainability underpins East Village on a number of levels including:
• Bicycle facilities and end of journey facilities.
• Community facilities – herb gardens, fruit trees for the residents, BBQ areas.
• Rainwater harvesting.
• Tri-generation Plant that:
- supplies power to shopping centre common areas,
- heating hot water for retail, commercial (Audi in slab heating to workshop and health club pool) and residents;
- chilled water for retail and commercial tenants.
• Embedded Power network