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Kingsford, Australia
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Scape Kingsford
Kingsford, Australia
Scape Kingsford - located near the recently completed light rail station, Juniors Kingsford - is a 17-storey triangular-shaped building incorporating 381 fully furnished tertiary student rooms with associated facilities. Recognising the vibrancy of Anzac Parade, nearby heritage items and an emerging suburban landscape of leafy streets, this project incorporates a new open space area designed to animate the pedestrian experience.
With a sculptural form and with facades aligned to the street edge, this project resolves the challenge of producing a rational plan for a triangular site. Here a tower with a podium, which operates as an urban marker to close off views south along this part of Anzac Parade, incorporates a floor plan of numerous student rooms with access off a central core. This arrangement achieves a multistorey building with an optimal density near public transport and the University of NSW.
To the ground floor and with an entry positioned off a new public open space area, is a continuous foyer structured for incidental social activities. At this entry, each student can interact with the local community as they pass by. Elsewhere, the building is designed for social interaction including, for example, break out spaces for either relaxation or private study. On the roof, garden beds define spaces for either outdoor relaxation, exercise, or shaded dining.
A feature of the project is the incorporation of vegetation within the curtain wall façade of the podium. This manages the heat loads, improves the local air quality and creates an important visual link with the adjacent tree-lined streets and parkland spaces. Working closely with the façade engineer, this unified system integrates new plantings and an irrigation and drainage system with insulated curtain wall panels.
Rated 5 Star Green Star building design, this project incorporates innovative design measures to minimise the heat island effect and to achieve energy savings during the building’s lifespan. In particular, the project includes DfMA components, such as prefabricated bathrooms, to minimise wastage during the construction period while contributing to an overall reduction in Co2 emissions.
In particular, the building provides the following:
- An interactive and mixed-use ground plane with an improved public domain that enhances a pedestrian link to the light rail stop on Anzac Parade
- A tower form with a vegetated podium that provides a visual connection with the adjacent tree-lined streets and parkland
spaces, a suburban area undergoing change
- A sculptured tower form with student rooms detailed to take advantage of the expansive views north to Kensington and Sydney City, and south to Botany Bay
- The integration of significant prefabricated elements to achieve a sustainable outcome
Location
391-397A Anzac Parade and 17 Bunnerong Road, Bidjigal and Gadigal Country, Kingsford, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Consultants
Architect: PTW Architects
Client
Scape
Awards
2025 Urban Taskforce Development Excellence Awards 2025 - Finalist
With a sculptural form and with facades aligned to the street edge, this project resolves the challenge of producing a rational plan for a triangular site. Here a tower with a podium, which operates as an urban marker to close off views south along this part of Anzac Parade, incorporates a floor plan of numerous student rooms with access off a central core. This arrangement achieves a multistorey building with an optimal density near public transport and the University of NSW.
To the ground floor and with an entry positioned off a new public open space area, is a continuous foyer structured for incidental social activities. At this entry, each student can interact with the local community as they pass by. Elsewhere, the building is designed for social interaction including, for example, break out spaces for either relaxation or private study. On the roof, garden beds define spaces for either outdoor relaxation, exercise, or shaded dining.
A feature of the project is the incorporation of vegetation within the curtain wall façade of the podium. This manages the heat loads, improves the local air quality and creates an important visual link with the adjacent tree-lined streets and parkland spaces. Working closely with the façade engineer, this unified system integrates new plantings and an irrigation and drainage system with insulated curtain wall panels.
Rated 5 Star Green Star building design, this project incorporates innovative design measures to minimise the heat island effect and to achieve energy savings during the building’s lifespan. In particular, the project includes DfMA components, such as prefabricated bathrooms, to minimise wastage during the construction period while contributing to an overall reduction in Co2 emissions.
In particular, the building provides the following:
- An interactive and mixed-use ground plane with an improved public domain that enhances a pedestrian link to the light rail stop on Anzac Parade
- A tower form with a vegetated podium that provides a visual connection with the adjacent tree-lined streets and parkland
spaces, a suburban area undergoing change
- A sculptured tower form with student rooms detailed to take advantage of the expansive views north to Kensington and Sydney City, and south to Botany Bay
- The integration of significant prefabricated elements to achieve a sustainable outcome
Location
391-397A Anzac Parade and 17 Bunnerong Road, Bidjigal and Gadigal Country, Kingsford, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Consultants
Architect: PTW Architects
Client
Scape
Awards
2025 Urban Taskforce Development Excellence Awards 2025 - Finalist
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