prev / next

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

· · · · · · · ·

An Authentic and Distinctive Identity.

Yeerongpilly Green should be a place which has a distinctive character derived from the natural and historical attributes of the site. It’s riverine location with wonderful views to the Taylor Ranges and adjoining two of Brisbane’s most desirable suburbs in Tennyson and Yeronga. The riverine forests of this part of Brisbane included many distinctive trees and plants which ideally would be featured in the public realm in particular and encouraged in the private realm to engender a memorable identity and experience of this place. Architecture of the scale envisaged here has few successful precedents in this part of the world. We would propose a rich and varied typology of larger scale buildings, with a very particular palette of materials and fine grained detail, integrated with a lush sub-tropical landscape where there is an intimacy of scale, diversity of expression and character and a focus on using natural materials, familiar and richly detailed. This is not a place for a typical and increasingly ubiquitous modern apartment and attached housing architecture with gratuitous supposedly sub-tropical gestures, but rather an architecture by particular form, articulation, scale, material and detailing that is distinctive to Yeerongpilly Green.

There is an opportunity to create more than just a good type of sub-tropical architecture. We would intend to carefully and in a studied manner develop a diverse and eclectic range contemporary sub-tropical design expression, within an overall Yeerongpilly typology which addresses; ordering and scaling of the buildings; varying types roof forms; proportion and enclosure to outdoor rooms; balustrades; sunshading; screening; window and door systems and their type and proportions; materials palette; colours, and; compositional strategies.

Architecture and Community.

For Yeerongpilly to be a genuine community where neighbourly relationships can develop and interaction between residents can occur at a range of scales and experiences, there is an important role for the architecture to play in facilitating interaction, both purposeful and incidental. Too often the journey to and from our place of residence fosters anonymity with little opportunity for an awareness of the wider life of that place. In Yeerongpilly Green we believe there is the opportunity through design to ensure that there is a larger sense of belonging and a genuine sense of shared ownership and responsibility of the public realm. This leads to a place which feels safe and secure, friendly and gregarious without the need for formal artificial arrangements. Where community can develop organically and more meaningfully.

Architecture has a significant role to play by; making public access to buildings visible and hospitable; balconies and outdoor living areas which offer both privacy and prospect whilst enabling passive surveillance of and connection to the streets and public spaces; by arranging circulation in a manner which makes movements, whether by elevator, walkway or corridor visible to a wider community; by providing both privacy and visibility to and from ground floor private spaces; by maximising the number of street level entries, and; by addressing the levels of privacy and quality of outlook from buildings. Meaningful engagement with the streets and public spaces will be a critical concern in all of our design.