An 8-storey residential development featuring 18 luxuriously-appointed apartments and a ground floor with a small retail space, entrance foyer and car parking facilities. An additional basement level for storage, waste management and building services completes the development.
The timber-decked rooftop garden is divided into communal and private BBQ areas. The private area is exclusive to the three-bedroom penthouse and includes a plunge pool.
The car park employs a car stacker and vehicle turntable to accommodate 9 parking spaces, including one which is accessible.
Koichi Takada Architects’ design concept of an “undulating glass and screened façade that sits like a soaring bamboo forest in the streetscape” is a manifestation of its vision of a “Japanese aesthetic that blurs the lines between inside and out”. The site’s small footprint meant that to maintain this vision, the design had to be extensively fire-engineered. A central feature of the design is the screened circulation stair that spirals its way up the front façade of the building. This single, unenclosed staircase also serves as the building’s fire egress pathway for the building’s residents.
The complex design and the site's very small footprint required significant value engineering and buildability input, but the quality of the finished product is testament to what can be achieved through a collaborative approach. This is reflected in the building's many striking features - exquisite architectural detailing, brass finishes and fitments, faux-timber elements and expressed precast concrete cladding.
Koichi Takada Architects
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