RECENT PROJECTS
Location: Broadway, Sydney Client: University of Technology Sydney Architects: Lacoste + Stevenson Architects in association with Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke and Six Degrees Engineers: Structural, Façade, Vertical Transportation, Lighting: ARUP Digital architecture: Media Architecture ESD / Services: Steensen Varming Hydraulic: Warren Smith Landscape: JMD Design BCA: BCA Logic, Traffic: TTPA Quantity Surveyor: WT Partnership Cost: $170 M Competition 2009 Shortlisted on stage 1
UTS
engineering & IT faculty
generation of the form
a striking structure for an engineering faculty
plan organisation by layers
active ground floor: shops, data forum, cafe...
teaching spaces open to the north and the garden
rooftop garden to provide a unique green space in UTS campus
1500m2 column free floor plate for maximum flexibility of teaching spaces
Location: Lower Campus, University of NSW, Sydney Client: University of New South Wales Cost: $38M Date: 2003 The University of New South Wales campus is becoming, over the years, very dense, lacking of open space. The building is elevated above the ground plane creating a new garden. The form of the main lecture theatre descends into the garden, suspended above the water’s surface. The light playing on the water reflects onto the soffit, sunlight during the day and artificial light at night. The soffit of the ground floor, hovering above the ground plane, is a timber-clad sculptural element that gives the impression of a room adding a surprising quality to the openness of the garden. From the main axis of the campus, ‘the Mall’, views under the building take in pools of light from the open courtyards cut into the building mass above. The voids have a positive effects at the ground plane and for the offices on the levels above. The primary presence along the Mall is the 2-storey library. It is a symbol of learning, bringing life to the façade day and night. Its façade is a double height glass façade that takes advantage of its orientation with views across the Mall to the playing fields. The glass façade is treated with a mirrored façade that dissipates from solid at the edges and floor level, reflecting the sky and the trees, to clear glass where light and views enhance the activities within, also providing views out and gentle southern light for the library users.
law faculty
section through the ofďŹ ces
section + elevation detail of the library
Location: Circular Quay, Sydney Client: City of Sydney Architects: Lacoste + Stevenson Architects In association with PTW Architects (coordinating architects), and Tanner Architects (heritage). Cost: $6.5M Date: June 2005 Awards: Interior Award, 2006 RAIA NSW Architecture Awards Public/Institutional, 2006 Interior Design Award Highly Commended, National Trust Heritage Wards 2006 Lighting Design - Commendation, ies The Lighting Society 2006 Highly Commended, Australian Property Institute Local Government Award 2006
The City of Sydney Library has been relocated to Customs House at Circular Quay. Customs House is one of Sydney’s finest colonial buildings and is reinvigorated by the addition of the library. The spread of the library over 3 levels allows it to cater for a diverse range of library uses. The ground floor is conceived as a public living room for Sydney with newspapers, magazines, internet facilities and multimedia services. Level 1 contains function rooms and a section of the library collection and becomes progressively quieter. Level 2 contains more of the library’s collections and culminates in the most reflective part with the main reading room. At the centre of the building, an atrium cuts through 5 levels to the sky under which the City of Sydney model is placed under a brightly lit, trafficable glass floor providing a unique experience of the city.
custom made
the model is displayed under a glass oor the spiral stair connect the 3 oors of the library
Customs House forecourt
Main reading room
design principles
Location: 25-33 Erskine Street, Sydney Client: Institute of Chartered Accountants Architects: Lacoste + Stevenson Architects In association with WHO interior architects. Cost: $6.5M Date: Completed in 2008
The Institute of Chartered Accountants is relocating to 25-33 Erskine Street in a late 80’s building. A total refurbishment is needed including the addition of a storey on the roof, a new foyer that connect the 3 lower levels. The roof addition is a light weight structure, using steel and timber. Timber sofďŹ t and beams add an unexpected warmth to this executive level. Glazed on 3 sides it takes advantage of the surrounding views.
ICAA
Location Blackwattle Bay Park, Glebe NSW Client City of Sydney, Town Hall House, 465 Kent St Sydney
camouage
Client Contact Lise Morgan, Project Manager M: 0438 403 297 Cost $500,000 Date May 2007
Plan
The design approach taken for the restoration and extension of Jubilee Oval Pavilion was guided by a respect for the site and the prominent position of Jubilee Pavilion on the eastern edge of the oval; to restore the pavilion to its former glory and retain existing historical fabric where possible. The changing rooms at the rear of the pavilion have been extended and renewed in a way that clearly differentiates it from the original building and equips it with a contemporary facility. The design respects the visual prominence of the pavilion within the park, with the main and most visible part of the building facing the oval to be retained as existing. The addition to the rear provides greater amenity, with larger and modern changing facilities to accommodate various user groups. In contrast to the existing grandstand, the addition appears as a garden element in the landscape, with the mirrored facade visually taking on the appearance of the grassy embankment in which it is nestled. The analogy to a hedge as the expression of the change rooms allows the pavilion to retain its prominence on the edge of the oval and within the park.
Camouage concept
Location: Reg Bartley Oval, Rushcutters Bay Park NSW Client: City of Sydney, Town Hall House, 465 Kent St Sydney
owery
Client Contact: Michael Harvey, Design Director T: (02) 9265 9531 Cost: $2 M Date: completion due mid 2010 Rushcutters Bay Park is a well used and valued community space by the surrounding residents and visitors. The feasibility study looked at a series of options to improve the urban composition and amenity of the Grandstand and associated buildings including the staff amenities building, public toilets, kiosk relocation and circulation around the oval. Currently there are a variety of buildings in various stages of decay surrounding the Grandstand and the removal of these buildings will open up sightlines to and from the Grandstand enriching its landscape setting. The design approach rationalises the buildings surrounding the Grandstand so that it has an uncluttered setting within the park and an improved relationship to the streetscape. New facilities buildings for the groundstaff and public toilets are placed behind and detached from the grandstand. The kiosk is relocated into the main body of the park, adjacent to the tennis courts with views over the oval and Rushcutters Bay.
Pattern prototype variations
bellevue cottage
Location: Blackwattle Bay Park, Glebe Foreshore NSW Client: City of Sydney Cost: $1.2M Date: March 2007 The design approach to the restoration and refurbishment of Bellevue Cottage was guided by the building’s heritage listing and respect for its dramatic harbourside location. Its setting as a ‘maritime villa’ and the prominent position of Bellevue Cottage along Glebe Foreshore is accentuated as it stands alone from nearby buildings. The cottage’s external appearance has been restored to its original state while its connection and relationship to surrounding open space has been enhanced. The sense of internal Victorian space is maintained as much as possible while creating functional and viable rooms for a variety of uses. Bellevue Cottage is being restored to house a café on the ground floor, with additional café space and public toilet facilities on the lower ground floor. The new uses are intended to provide public access to a long-derelict harbourside building and amenity for the Glebe community and users of the Glebe Foreshore Walk. Community groups will use rooms within the café. Existing historic fabric has been retained and shown where possible, complemented with contemporary facilities and finishes.
Location Aix-en-Provence, France Architects: Lacoste + Robain
treasure chest
Client: Ministry of Culture Cost: FF18M (AUD$4M) Date: 2003
The Overseas archives Centre houses the archives from the former french colonies. The new entrance hall, exhibition room and reading room characterises its image. The centre contains precious documents. The extension is designed as a treasure chest. The image of a treasure chest is, first of all, a closed box. A reading room however needs abundant indirect sunlight. The technique to satisfy these contradictory aims is similar to contemporary artists work (Felice Varini, George Rousse). The front elevation presents a seemingly closed building. The side view reveals the source of light. The light shafts are oriented to all four compass points so they conduct sun throughout the day on the pale timber surfaces, which add a changing warm tint to the light. At night, the devices work in reverse: they conduct intense artificial light out to keep the quality of indirect sources. Project scope: extension including an exhibition hall, café, reading room, microfilm consultation room, team working room, catalogue room, cloakroom and toilets. Refurbishment of the administration offices. Surface area, 653m² new, 1590m² refurbished.
At night
Reading room
Location: 205 Ben Boyd Road, Neutral Bay, Sydney, Australia
built envelope
Client: Huntingdale Properties Pty Ltd Planner: City Plan Services Cost: $750,000 Date: 2004
Ground floor
First floor
Second floor
Third floor
The site occupies the corner of Ben Boyd Road and Cheal Lane, a secondary road and a small lane. The building façade to Ben Boyd Road has a regular form while the façade along the lane inclines at 45 degrees to comply with the building height plane. The resulting shape of the building is a morph of these two regulations. It offers a regular façade on Ben Boyd Road and a splay on the lane also addressing the views from the adjacent apartments. The street facades and roof are zinc clad, making no distinction between roof and walls. Timber and glass on ground floor offers a warmer material to pedestrians at street level. The timber reappars behind the zinc skin on the balconies and window reveals. The building comprises a shop and garage at ground floor, an office space on the first floor and an apartment on two levels on the 2nd and 3rd floors.
Location: Greystanes, Sydney, Australia Client: Macquarie Goodman Management Engineer: Enstruct Cost: $20M Date: Completed in 2006 Awards: Metal Building Products Steel Design Award, ASI Steel Awards, NSW+ACT 2006
As industrial buildings become a common feature in the architectural landscape, more effort is being put into the design of this building type. This 28m high, 22,500msq storage facility is one of the largest in NSW holding 6 million A3 archive storage boxes. The building takes the barcode, used by the operator to locate the stored boxes, to give scale and identity to the enormous built volume. Giving each function a volume along the street to modulate its presence in the streetscape, further breaks down the scale of the building. For example, the transport delivery shed is an elongated polycarbonate-clad shed with a large super-graphic of the company logo.
barcode