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EDO'
YEAR
2009
SIZE
300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft
EDO is an acronym for environment, diversity and operability
– the three guiding design principles of this mixed-use apartment building.
Environment refers to passive environmental design such as
cross-flow ventilation, rainwater detention and sun-shading. Diversity relates
to the variety of apartment layouts that comprise one, two and three bedrooms
with and without studies, on single and two levels, and in gallery and
cross-over arrangements. The ground level of the building contains a restaurant
that opens out to an external street terrace. Operability refers to the ease
with which occupants can modify their space through sliding doors and external
blinds depending on the time of the day, mood or weather conditions.
EDO is located in a typical inner Sydney street with a west
facing elevation that is cooked by the harsh afternoon sun, yet offers
spectacular night views over parkland to the city skyline and lights. It is
adjacent to automotive showrooms, Victorian terraces, mediocre residential flat
buildings and the high-rise and the Boulevarde Hotel. EDO is a climatically
responsive building that applies environmental design to the discipline of
modern technology and aesthetics. It is particular to Sydney, forming a
regional response to modern architecture.
The concept for EDO is an ‘abstract floating box’ which
contains living and breathing spaces filled with light, air and space. EDO’s
design focuses on abstraction to create a framework for living. The apartments
feature slide away walls, remote controlled blinds and oversized balconies that
extend space and give occupants flexibility. The project is a prototype for
compact urban living environment, containing 31 apartments and a street level restaurant. The reductive and restrained exterior masks
the richness and complexity of the interior.
On the western face, EDO has a grided steel frame filled
with frameless glass balustrades, silver-grey aluminium window frames and
retractable aluminium louvre blinds giving the building a random, ever-changing
appearance as occupants adjust the louvres to close them to create intimacy or
open them to let in light, air and views to the city skyline. Residents can
close the blinds in the late afternoon to shade the harsh low-level western sun
and then open them to enjoy the city lights. The blinds retract automatically
when the wind reaches a certain velocity.
The entry to the building, adjacent to the renewed Badham
Lane, features a ‘ring’ sculpture by public artist Peter McGregor that
deconstructs the word Woolloomooloo to connect the building to the history of
its place. The sculpture
wittily uses a series of “O”s to evoke the name of the suburb Woolloomooloo -
the consonants are arrayed on the floor. The sculpture is made from steel rings
and perforated steel panels, echoing the building’s external steel frame.
One of the building’s most notable elements is on the
eastern courtyard side: a two storey gallery framed by custom designed, fixed
glass louvres that provide access to the lower two levels of apartments. In
winter the gallery is a sun trap in the morning and in summer, due to the
bamboo that screens and small, lush, Eastern-influenced courtyard, the gallery
is a pool of filtered light. The gallery has no artificial lighting (apart from
safety lights) and at night it is illuminated by the street and the sky. The
eastern courtyard is a place of solitude and calm.
– the three guiding design principles of this mixed-use apartment building.
Environment refers to passive environmental design such as
cross-flow ventilation, rainwater detention and sun-shading. Diversity relates
to the variety of apartment layouts that comprise one, two and three bedrooms
with and without studies, on single and two levels, and in gallery and
cross-over arrangements. The ground level of the building contains a restaurant
that opens out to an external street terrace. Operability refers to the ease
with which occupants can modify their space through sliding doors and external
blinds depending on the time of the day, mood or weather conditions.
EDO is located in a typical inner Sydney street with a west
facing elevation that is cooked by the harsh afternoon sun, yet offers
spectacular night views over parkland to the city skyline and lights. It is
adjacent to automotive showrooms, Victorian terraces, mediocre residential flat
buildings and the high-rise and the Boulevarde Hotel. EDO is a climatically
responsive building that applies environmental design to the discipline of
modern technology and aesthetics. It is particular to Sydney, forming a
regional response to modern architecture.
The concept for EDO is an ‘abstract floating box’ which
contains living and breathing spaces filled with light, air and space. EDO’s
design focuses on abstraction to create a framework for living. The apartments
feature slide away walls, remote controlled blinds and oversized balconies that
extend space and give occupants flexibility. The project is a prototype for
compact urban living environment, containing 31 apartments and a street level restaurant. The reductive and restrained exterior masks
the richness and complexity of the interior.
On the western face, EDO has a grided steel frame filled
with frameless glass balustrades, silver-grey aluminium window frames and
retractable aluminium louvre blinds giving the building a random, ever-changing
appearance as occupants adjust the louvres to close them to create intimacy or
open them to let in light, air and views to the city skyline. Residents can
close the blinds in the late afternoon to shade the harsh low-level western sun
and then open them to enjoy the city lights. The blinds retract automatically
when the wind reaches a certain velocity.
The entry to the building, adjacent to the renewed Badham
Lane, features a ‘ring’ sculpture by public artist Peter McGregor that
deconstructs the word Woolloomooloo to connect the building to the history of
its place. The sculpture
wittily uses a series of “O”s to evoke the name of the suburb Woolloomooloo -
the consonants are arrayed on the floor. The sculpture is made from steel rings
and perforated steel panels, echoing the building’s external steel frame.
One of the building’s most notable elements is on the
eastern courtyard side: a two storey gallery framed by custom designed, fixed
glass louvres that provide access to the lower two levels of apartments. In
winter the gallery is a sun trap in the morning and in summer, due to the
bamboo that screens and small, lush, Eastern-influenced courtyard, the gallery
is a pool of filtered light. The gallery has no artificial lighting (apart from
safety lights) and at night it is illuminated by the street and the sky. The
eastern courtyard is a place of solitude and calm.
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