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Chippendale, Australia
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Indigo Slam
Chippendale, Australia
This exciting project transforms the former Simona warehouse in Sydney’s Chippendale into an inspiring residence for an art collector. Behind a façade of sculpted concrete, serene living spaces and monumental halls create a dynamic spatial interplay of spare interiors in which the main decorative element is light.
The house has been approached as a piece of sculpture to be lived in. The street façades take cues from the work of Richard Serra - something once flat becomes three dimensional and something once blank creates and enfolds space. The concrete facades of Indigo Slam will be alive to the changes wrought by light, shade, sun and cloud, providing the new urban park over the road with a lively backdrop to public life.
Approaching from O’Connor Street, a patterned steel screen opens to lead the visitor into a generous coved vestibule. From here, the space compresses to a low and narrow corridor, before suddenly opening to a cavernous stair hall lit from concealed roof lights overhead. Taking cues from precedents of modern European church and gallery spaces, this room is a space unique in Australian residential architecture – grand and austere in its size and sparseness, but inviting and exciting as it leads one upwards through the building.
As a counterpoint to this dramatic spatial sequence, the living areas leading off it are informal and intimate, at a human rather than industrial scale.
Four contained bedroom suites occupy the first floor, overlooking the public park to the north. The curves and planes of the façade here act as screens to provide privacy and shade for the occupants. On the second floor, sitting and dining rooms are divided by screens and overlook the park. A skylit kitchen and study look back into the building, creating views across the stair hall.
To the south, a small garden flat and three car garage address Dick Street.
Throughout the building, internal finishes are modest and pared-back. Spaces are large but not ostentatious, in keeping with the building’s origins as a warehouse, and the industrial setting. Floors are brick paved, walls are set render, and fittings are simple. In this respect, the house is distinct in the oeuvre of large residential developments in Sydney.
The project aspires to an exemplary level of environmentally sustainable design. Geothermal heating and cooling options have been incorporated into the design, solar hot water and photovoltaic cells will populate the roof.
Indigo Slam represents a rare opportunity to add a large residence of substantial quality and architectural merit to the diverse neighbourhood of Chippendale, and participate in the reinvigoration this part of Sydney as a place of architectural and cultural interest.
The house has been approached as a piece of sculpture to be lived in. The street façades take cues from the work of Richard Serra - something once flat becomes three dimensional and something once blank creates and enfolds space. The concrete facades of Indigo Slam will be alive to the changes wrought by light, shade, sun and cloud, providing the new urban park over the road with a lively backdrop to public life.
Approaching from O’Connor Street, a patterned steel screen opens to lead the visitor into a generous coved vestibule. From here, the space compresses to a low and narrow corridor, before suddenly opening to a cavernous stair hall lit from concealed roof lights overhead. Taking cues from precedents of modern European church and gallery spaces, this room is a space unique in Australian residential architecture – grand and austere in its size and sparseness, but inviting and exciting as it leads one upwards through the building.
As a counterpoint to this dramatic spatial sequence, the living areas leading off it are informal and intimate, at a human rather than industrial scale.
Four contained bedroom suites occupy the first floor, overlooking the public park to the north. The curves and planes of the façade here act as screens to provide privacy and shade for the occupants. On the second floor, sitting and dining rooms are divided by screens and overlook the park. A skylit kitchen and study look back into the building, creating views across the stair hall.
To the south, a small garden flat and three car garage address Dick Street.
Throughout the building, internal finishes are modest and pared-back. Spaces are large but not ostentatious, in keeping with the building’s origins as a warehouse, and the industrial setting. Floors are brick paved, walls are set render, and fittings are simple. In this respect, the house is distinct in the oeuvre of large residential developments in Sydney.
The project aspires to an exemplary level of environmentally sustainable design. Geothermal heating and cooling options have been incorporated into the design, solar hot water and photovoltaic cells will populate the roof.
Indigo Slam represents a rare opportunity to add a large residence of substantial quality and architectural merit to the diverse neighbourhood of Chippendale, and participate in the reinvigoration this part of Sydney as a place of architectural and cultural interest.
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