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Arlington Grove
A NEW PLACE IN DULWICH HILL
Catalysed by the extension of Sydney’s light rail to Dulwich Hill, and a consequential land rezoning for medium-density housing, Smart Design Studio’s Masterplan for Arlington Grove envisages a new beautifully landscaped residential precinct. This former industrial site into has been converted into 246 well-planned apartments arrayed around a series of leafy courtyards and lanes. At an urban scale the site is conceived of as a considered edge to Johnson Park which sits to the north-west and, at a finer grain, a continuation of the orthogonal street network to the south-east.
The four buildings that make up the project are carefully located on the site both to contain the extensive landscaping and to maximise the number of bright, sunny apartments which with views over the district to the CBD skyline and the park. Their narrow footprints promote natural cross ventilation for the residences within and building heights are unified, sitting at either 4 storeys where they address the local streets or stepping up to 8 storeys towards Johnson Park. Each building has a clear address from the new publicly accessible private lanes and walkways within the calm and accessible green spaces at ground level. Public benefits, such as “Arlington Square”, a landscaped shared zone featuring a café and an extended, high quality ground plane, convert a non-descript dead end street into a vibrant urban place, marking the entrance to the new Arlington tram stop. A new GreenWay running parallel with the tramline provides informal native landscaping able to be enjoyed by both residents and neighbours whilst encouraging wildlife inhabitation, as well as a cycle path connection to Sydney CBD.
CLASSICAL PROPORTIONS AND DYNAMIC, MODERN CORNERS
The architecture of Arlington Grove utilises carefully composed and simple, long elevations, their principles borrowed from classical buildings, framed by articulated corners. Contrasting the almost metronomic rhythm of the façades these corners provide dynamism and interest, creating a strong identity for each of the four buildings arrayed around the campus-like site. Expressed slabs serve a dual purpose, both supporting the leaves of brickwork along the façade and visually breaking the building into segments, introducing a further note of play within the highly regular grid ordering the site.
Two storey colonnades fronting the courtyards between the buildings, achieved through inclusion of double level apartments at ground floor level without balconies, also draw upon the principles of classical proportion, helping to create a base, middle and top for the buildings. These light and open spaces diversify the mix of apartments, being ideal for inhabitants often overlooked in multi-residential developments; young families and people with pets. Lofty, they connect via generous terraces directly to the squares, lanes and gardens of the site. The facades of the buildings are further articulated via deep brick blades which form a brise soleil, encouraging sun and shadow to play over the ever changing facades. Their elegant vertical orientation also provides depth to assist in passive solar control, protecting building interiors from high angle sun while allowing in low angled winter sun.
BRICK – A DURABLE MATERIAL
Brick is a naturally low maintenance material that compliments both the neighbouring housing stock as well as the larger buildings of Dulwich Hill. It is warm, textured and authentic and will continue to look good throughout its life, without the maintenance challenges of render and paint. Unifying each of the subtly different building forms, brick provides a subtle grain to the project, its diversity and texture softening the exterior. With a balance of open and solid surfaces, depending upon orientation, the interplay between the types of brick panel utilised on each face of the buildings allows fenestration to be positioned to appreciate views, mitigate adverse environmental impacts and maintain privacy within an overall system.
BUILDINGS INTEGRATED WITH THE LANDSCAPE RAMPARTS
Dark face brick fences at the base of the buildings extend the architecture into the surrounding open spaces. These walls, inspired by the aesthetic, if not the function of the ramparts of a walled city, connect the buildings to their landscape as well as contain ground floor private open space. Their articulation helps create a uniquely activated ground plane condition in contrast to the standard flat gate and fence scenario typical for many residential developments.
OUTDOOR ROOMS
Just as with Arlington Square and the Greenway the remaining landscaped spaces of the site are conceived of as outdoor rooms or corridors. They visually extend the green spaces of Johnson Park between the architecture of the buildings, each with a unique character. Buildings thus sit within a green ground plane of trees, pocket parks and squares with each optimised for different purposes at different times of year. Combined, the architecture and landscape construct a scenic scape, generating new views and vistas for the benefit of the residents and the neighbourhood.
The central grove is a tranquil inward retreat for the surrounding dual height apartments, featuring large deciduous trees within an extensive grassed square. The orange grove, an allee which draws pedestrians into the site from the surrounding street, extends the rhythm of the building facades into the landscape. The north and south lanes act as shared zones enabling vehicles and pedestrians to move on and around the site whilst continuing the green aesthetic of the surrounds. All these new parks and squares are open for the local community to pass through and enjoy whilst careful internal planning maximises dual-aspect apartments, offering restful views into the landscape from a private and privileged position.
ARLINGTON SQUARE
A public square is proposed at the confluence of the east-west thoroughfare to Arlington Station, the GreenWay, and the southern entry to ‘Arlington Grove.’ Paving, together with soft landscaping and street furniture provide a unified urban landscape accommodating both vehicular and pedestrian movement. A cafe with outdoor seating will further activate this square.
INTERIORS
The interiors of the project bring the architecture inside and bring to the fore some of SDS’s established interior design concepts, adapted to suit this project, location and a completion date two years from now. The foundation for these simple and beautiful apartments is great planning to achieve generously sized apartments with tall ceilings.
Simple orthogonal white interior spaces, reflecting the rhythm of the exteriors, are contrasted with gently splayed joinery elements which draw inspiration from the dynamic corners of the buildings. The look is tailored and the palette is matt with charred wood veneer as the feature for the dark scheme and white over-painted wood for the light. These veneers are coupled with clay-stained wood, looped carpet, brushed stainless steel details, full height doors and very fine floating benchtops. Functional arrangements, high quality fixtures and fittings and energy efficient design will create wonderful homes for people to live in, connected to the outdoors and the abundance of green space that surrounds.
MORE THAN A BUILDING
In addition to a series of buildings connected by landscaped courtyards and lanes, this building has facilities that help to build a community. For example, there’s a shed to repair bikes and assemble furniture, a club room that can be booked by residents for birthday parties or meetings, barbeque facilities to be shared by all and a community garden. Lastly, trees that bear fruit line the laneways such in the “orange grove”. Stemming from this concept each building bears the name of a different variety of orange.
Catalysed by the extension of Sydney’s light rail to Dulwich Hill, and a consequential land rezoning for medium-density housing, Smart Design Studio’s Masterplan for Arlington Grove envisages a new beautifully landscaped residential precinct. This former industrial site into has been converted into 246 well-planned apartments arrayed around a series of leafy courtyards and lanes. At an urban scale the site is conceived of as a considered edge to Johnson Park which sits to the north-west and, at a finer grain, a continuation of the orthogonal street network to the south-east.
The four buildings that make up the project are carefully located on the site both to contain the extensive landscaping and to maximise the number of bright, sunny apartments which with views over the district to the CBD skyline and the park. Their narrow footprints promote natural cross ventilation for the residences within and building heights are unified, sitting at either 4 storeys where they address the local streets or stepping up to 8 storeys towards Johnson Park. Each building has a clear address from the new publicly accessible private lanes and walkways within the calm and accessible green spaces at ground level. Public benefits, such as “Arlington Square”, a landscaped shared zone featuring a café and an extended, high quality ground plane, convert a non-descript dead end street into a vibrant urban place, marking the entrance to the new Arlington tram stop. A new GreenWay running parallel with the tramline provides informal native landscaping able to be enjoyed by both residents and neighbours whilst encouraging wildlife inhabitation, as well as a cycle path connection to Sydney CBD.
CLASSICAL PROPORTIONS AND DYNAMIC, MODERN CORNERS
The architecture of Arlington Grove utilises carefully composed and simple, long elevations, their principles borrowed from classical buildings, framed by articulated corners. Contrasting the almost metronomic rhythm of the façades these corners provide dynamism and interest, creating a strong identity for each of the four buildings arrayed around the campus-like site. Expressed slabs serve a dual purpose, both supporting the leaves of brickwork along the façade and visually breaking the building into segments, introducing a further note of play within the highly regular grid ordering the site.
Two storey colonnades fronting the courtyards between the buildings, achieved through inclusion of double level apartments at ground floor level without balconies, also draw upon the principles of classical proportion, helping to create a base, middle and top for the buildings. These light and open spaces diversify the mix of apartments, being ideal for inhabitants often overlooked in multi-residential developments; young families and people with pets. Lofty, they connect via generous terraces directly to the squares, lanes and gardens of the site. The facades of the buildings are further articulated via deep brick blades which form a brise soleil, encouraging sun and shadow to play over the ever changing facades. Their elegant vertical orientation also provides depth to assist in passive solar control, protecting building interiors from high angle sun while allowing in low angled winter sun.
BRICK – A DURABLE MATERIAL
Brick is a naturally low maintenance material that compliments both the neighbouring housing stock as well as the larger buildings of Dulwich Hill. It is warm, textured and authentic and will continue to look good throughout its life, without the maintenance challenges of render and paint. Unifying each of the subtly different building forms, brick provides a subtle grain to the project, its diversity and texture softening the exterior. With a balance of open and solid surfaces, depending upon orientation, the interplay between the types of brick panel utilised on each face of the buildings allows fenestration to be positioned to appreciate views, mitigate adverse environmental impacts and maintain privacy within an overall system.
BUILDINGS INTEGRATED WITH THE LANDSCAPE RAMPARTS
Dark face brick fences at the base of the buildings extend the architecture into the surrounding open spaces. These walls, inspired by the aesthetic, if not the function of the ramparts of a walled city, connect the buildings to their landscape as well as contain ground floor private open space. Their articulation helps create a uniquely activated ground plane condition in contrast to the standard flat gate and fence scenario typical for many residential developments.
OUTDOOR ROOMS
Just as with Arlington Square and the Greenway the remaining landscaped spaces of the site are conceived of as outdoor rooms or corridors. They visually extend the green spaces of Johnson Park between the architecture of the buildings, each with a unique character. Buildings thus sit within a green ground plane of trees, pocket parks and squares with each optimised for different purposes at different times of year. Combined, the architecture and landscape construct a scenic scape, generating new views and vistas for the benefit of the residents and the neighbourhood.
The central grove is a tranquil inward retreat for the surrounding dual height apartments, featuring large deciduous trees within an extensive grassed square. The orange grove, an allee which draws pedestrians into the site from the surrounding street, extends the rhythm of the building facades into the landscape. The north and south lanes act as shared zones enabling vehicles and pedestrians to move on and around the site whilst continuing the green aesthetic of the surrounds. All these new parks and squares are open for the local community to pass through and enjoy whilst careful internal planning maximises dual-aspect apartments, offering restful views into the landscape from a private and privileged position.
ARLINGTON SQUARE
A public square is proposed at the confluence of the east-west thoroughfare to Arlington Station, the GreenWay, and the southern entry to ‘Arlington Grove.’ Paving, together with soft landscaping and street furniture provide a unified urban landscape accommodating both vehicular and pedestrian movement. A cafe with outdoor seating will further activate this square.
INTERIORS
The interiors of the project bring the architecture inside and bring to the fore some of SDS’s established interior design concepts, adapted to suit this project, location and a completion date two years from now. The foundation for these simple and beautiful apartments is great planning to achieve generously sized apartments with tall ceilings.
Simple orthogonal white interior spaces, reflecting the rhythm of the exteriors, are contrasted with gently splayed joinery elements which draw inspiration from the dynamic corners of the buildings. The look is tailored and the palette is matt with charred wood veneer as the feature for the dark scheme and white over-painted wood for the light. These veneers are coupled with clay-stained wood, looped carpet, brushed stainless steel details, full height doors and very fine floating benchtops. Functional arrangements, high quality fixtures and fittings and energy efficient design will create wonderful homes for people to live in, connected to the outdoors and the abundance of green space that surrounds.
MORE THAN A BUILDING
In addition to a series of buildings connected by landscaped courtyards and lanes, this building has facilities that help to build a community. For example, there’s a shed to repair bikes and assemble furniture, a club room that can be booked by residents for birthday parties or meetings, barbeque facilities to be shared by all and a community garden. Lastly, trees that bear fruit line the laneways such in the “orange grove”. Stemming from this concept each building bears the name of a different variety of orange.
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