Wellington on the Park

Recognition

  • NSW Architecture Awards (AIA)

    Residential - Multiple Housing

    Shortlist 2018

  • The Plan Award

    Residential Design

    Shortlist 2018

In Waterloo, part of Sydney’s rapidly changing industrial south, a sizeable apartment complex meets its tough urban setting head on, with a strong composition of materials and form.

  • The challenge of the brief to design 85 apartments opposite Waterloo Park included the busy street and less than genteel setting. The opportunity in designing both the building and its interiors lay in being able to unite the urban building form with cohesive interior spaces, that buffer the street and bring in natural light.

Having maximised the GFA with additional height left over, the height surplus was used to articulate the striking sawtooth roofline.

  • To reduce visual scale and bulk, and maximise the site aspects, we designed a series of slender building volumes wrapping the east and north boundaries – creating a series of protected rear garden oases.

The urban palette is robust and refined, with architectural markers signalling a thoughtful response.

  • Outwardly, the steel-clad sawtooth roofline nods to the area’s industrial factories and warehouses, opening up to the north, bringing sun and spatial drama to the top-floor apartments.

  • Each apartment is individually designed for seamless indoor/outdoor connections. Key to the interior success was our site masterplan that ensured all perimeter apartments face east and north, harvesting sun and views from these prized aspects, a key sustainability strategy.