Green Square Housing
Sydney, Australia
2024-
Winning Design Excellence competition scheme for a seven-storey housing scheme with mixed uses at street level.
The proposed building is one of several planned in the area as part of a district-wide regeneration scheme in Green Square. At the district scale, there are two primary shifts in the urban condition which inform the development and position of the buildings within it. The first is a west-to-east transition of mass and use along Zetland Avenue, and the second is a change of city block geometry at Joynton Avenue. The scheme proposes a porous urban grain with landscape through-block pedestrian "streets". The plan is long and thin with dual cores, allowing dual-aspect apartments with short common corridors. The main entry is kept external with ground floor landscape elements permeating across the plan.
The architectural language of the external elevations draws on the area’s fluvial and geological history. It combines simple self-finishing materials such as terracotta and hand-render with more processed materials such as glass and extruded aluminium. Elevations prioritise the horizontal line, while columns at ground floor are striated, in a subtle reference to sediment geologies.
Client
Competition
Lead Consultant and Architect
Architect: Facade and Ground Plane
Landscape ArchitectDeicorp
City of Sydney
Fender Katsilidis
Besley & Spresser
Land and Form