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Devonshire
249 Devonshire Street is a 3 storey residential building located in the affluent inner Sydney suburb of Surry Hills. The proposed development involves demolition of the existing warehouse buildings onsite and construction of a three storey mixed use development comprising two retail units, shop top housing (19 residential units) and one level of basement car parking.
The largest challenge we faced was how to deal with the existing warehouse buildings on site. Council were looking to retain these building despite them not having any heritage significance. Keeping these structures did however pose a problem for commercial viability of the project. This issue helped us form the concept which was to drive the whole expression of the building.
The outline of the original gabled warehouse building is traced onto the brick walls with glazed white bricks, serving as a subtle memory of what once existed on site. Where possible, the bricks left over from its demolition would be recycled to form the brick skin above the trace, exchanging old with new. The saw tooth outline of the site’s second existing building is rebuilt in off form concrete and the roof form is used for the apartments two levels above the original.
Furthermore the scheme responds to the topography by stepping the form along the North-South axis, and carves a central void to provide a common, landscaped courtyard which circulates skywards to a rooftop garden. Large openings on the brick skin reveal the industrial character of black steel structures behind.
The largest challenge we faced was how to deal with the existing warehouse buildings on site. Council were looking to retain these building despite them not having any heritage significance. Keeping these structures did however pose a problem for commercial viability of the project. This issue helped us form the concept which was to drive the whole expression of the building.
The outline of the original gabled warehouse building is traced onto the brick walls with glazed white bricks, serving as a subtle memory of what once existed on site. Where possible, the bricks left over from its demolition would be recycled to form the brick skin above the trace, exchanging old with new. The saw tooth outline of the site’s second existing building is rebuilt in off form concrete and the roof form is used for the apartments two levels above the original.
Furthermore the scheme responds to the topography by stepping the form along the North-South axis, and carves a central void to provide a common, landscaped courtyard which circulates skywards to a rooftop garden. Large openings on the brick skin reveal the industrial character of black steel structures behind.
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