The Well YEJIN KIM retreat, breathe, weave, create...

The studio premise lies within the issue of how water cities can manage current and future challenges related with climate change and sea level threats. The artist retreat and exhibition space consider how a new relationship between the North Sydney community and the water can be facilitated through vertically rising architectural form that also weaves along the planted railway, which has been renewed through our urban masterplan.

The urban connections are formed from street networks that slope down from Milsons Point leading to an elevated podium which overlooks the courtyard and beyond to the bay. Rising above this level are the two residency towers which are connected by a sky bridge and shared public space. The towers consist of several typologies of integrated living and offer a temporary retreat for the artists – designed with light, ventilation and structure in mind.