This project successfully creates a critical light rail address to the campus via a strategic and imaginative reworking of an existing facility. The architects have exploited an opportunity to create a new activated pedestrian spine which is cooled by breezes captured through the manipulation of the ‘venturi effect’. Shopfronts have been successful integrated into a coherent and rich series of spaces that are suitably informal. The architecture makes a clear and strong welcoming gesture to people arriving from the light rail, inviting use and exploration of a well-considered sequence of human-scaled spaces. Jury Comments, 2017 Gold Coast Urban Design Awards About 2017 Gold Coast Urban Design Awards, Commendation2016 AIA Queensland Architecture Awards State Medal (Beatrice Hutton Award) for Commercial ArchitectureGold Coast Building of the Year This project involved the re-planning and re-birthing of an ‘ugly duckling’ conglomerate structure that housed the Student Uni Bar, Function Room and some eating areas.The major architectural manoeuvres involved relocating the Bar to create a new pedestrian entry to the University that links the new light rail station through an alfresco dining area and into the campus. Architecturally the building’s many disparate parts are united in a clean palette of […]
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About 2010 AIA Queensland Architecture Awards Darling Downs Retail AwardSituated on the former timber sawmill site, Fernvale Village is a low scaled shopping centre. The prominence of the site and large scale of the building were primary factors in how the architecture is made. The large supermarket box was integrated into the streetscape and generally buried behind the activated pedestrian zones of the masterplan. This was achieved by creating an architecture whereby the retail shopfront streetscape becomes the verandah edge with the ‘big box’ hidden behind. Dynamic structural cantilevers, scale variations and translucent materiality combine with colour and signage to break down the building mass into an interesting regional scale. The verandah controls pedestrian circulation linking the smaller tenancies with the major stores and providing links to future master planned stages. In terms of efficient, sustainable, passive design, the verandah is a large, naturally lit ventilated zone that provides shade and weather protection to the shopfronts. The highway frontage awning is spectacular, lighting the long graphic mural by artist Robert Moore. The mural depicts the sites’ history as a hub for the local timber industry and animates the supermarket façade to the highway. The shopping centre takes advantage of panel […]
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