An 8-storey, 54 apartment multi-residential building broken up into two communities.
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PROJECT PROFILE
This multi-residential building is broken up into 2 communities; a Laneway community housing 31 apartments and a Station community housing 23, with apartment types ranging from 3 bedrooms to Teilhaus apartments. The two communities have separate secure entries via a lush, vegetated forecourt off the western colonnade. Each have a dedicated rooftop spaces with laundry facilities and productive gardens and share communal bike storage and waste rooms. Nightingale Anstey in collaboration with Breathe, Australia’s most sustainable design firm.
Nightingale Anstey is carefully designed to reduce visual and physical bulk, for the benefit of the urban form and for improved apartment performance. Although existing on one site, the building is divided into two distinct forms with different visual languages. The Station and Laneway communities will each have their own set of shared facilities (like laundry and bathhouse) while still being internally connected. By breaking up the project into parts, the oppressive feeling created by large and looming building masses is designed out. It also allows for a smaller number of apartments per landing, which raises the likelihood of neighbourly engagement.
