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GLEBE ISLAND MASTERPLAN

AMANDA JAYNE STOLLERY M. ARCH 2013 BOOK ONE

AMANDA JAYNE STOLLERY M. ARCH 2013 BOOK TWO
AMANDA JAYNE STOLLERY | GRADUATION STUDIO 2014 M. ARCH UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
This project was completed in collaboration with practitioner Michael Zanardo of Studio Zanardo. The project was also made possible through the vision of Sam Rigoli of Studio R and Melissa Wilson of Melissa Wilson Landscape Architects.
Amanda Jayne Stollery
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Figure 1. An early design process diagram that later inspired elements of the brief including notions of flexibility and sustainability, with the aim to keep spaces relevant to the way we use them today.
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Abstract
EMERGING PROBLEM WITH DISCONNECTION TO CONTEXT: OBSOLESCENCE
We are becoming increasingly detached from our past and culture. For the past to become a part of our future, it needs to have significance, or, rather; it needs to be memorable. Unique in our connections with the world, memory will always be significant to our experience and discovering meaning in the spaces we interact with.
Considering the historical significance and location of Glebe Point Island, what is built on the site says a lot about what we want our city to be. Each individual site design considers urban connection to adjacent sites and to the city, as well as environmental sustainability and its own contribution to quality public space in the site. We adopt individual sites on the masterplan site to create a
The following project will explore the significance of memory in a time of rapid globalisation and privatisation1. It will explore the influence of technology on the sustainability of memory and culture; and subsequently on contemporary architecture and ecological sustainability.
high-density, high-variation masterplan.
Our project on Glebe island is envisioned to set an example for future Sydney projects, to treasure quality public domain spaces and design for a greater sense of place and community.
1. Low, Setha. Towards a Theory of Urban Fragmentation. Section 05. Feb 2005.
I would like to extend my gratitude to the University of Sydney for providing such a thorough architectural program. In partiular, I would like to thank my graduation studio tutor Michael Zanardo for sharing his extensive knowledge in housing and the practice of architecture. A big thank you also to Melissa Wilson and Sam Rigoli for their advice and expertise. I would also like to give spacial thanks to Professors Sandra OGrady and Simon Weir for their insight and knowledge basis in the realm of conceptual theory. An enormous thank you to my family and friends for their support.
This paper is dedicated to my late Grandfather John Leslie Stollery, a great support throughout my life and education.
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Contents
Book One Abstract Acknowledgements 07 10
Preface
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Line of Inquiry and Conceptual Framework Outline, Brief and Functional Program Context, Site and Strategy Design Strategy
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Book Two Technological Strategy Precedents and References Final Design Project
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94 Bibliography
Appendix A: Underlying Themes and Concepts Appendix B: Stages of the Design Process Appendix C: Final Model Photography
Figure 2. Photograph of Glebe Island. Source: Zanardo, Michael. Urban Heterodoxy: An Alternative Future for Glebe Island. Graduation Studio Outline, page 1.
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Preface
OVERALL PROJECT OUTLINE
This project is an investigation into Glebe Island as a tapestry of potential quality public spaces: We are aiming to claim back a small but significant part of the city to contribute to the fight to start reshaping the urbanisation process. We have produced a masterplan that we believe is functional, and integrated that holds the public interest at high priority. We love our city and in this project we are claiming back our rights to the city.
OVERALL PROJECT AIM
In our project we are using architecture and landscape as a framework for the event of things to come. We are attempting to activate and deactivate spaces where necessary, to patch the disconnection in urban fabric that we find. Our projects are both in careful consideration of our adjacent sites and our overall masterplan strategy. We need to constantly engage with our city, it is everchanging and so must we be.
Figure 3. White Bay, Glebe Island and Surrrounding areas plan. Shows the extent of the masterplan as defined by the Glebe Island and White Bay Masterplan of 2005. Source: http://www.sydneyports.com.au/__data/ assets/pdf_file/0016/1438/PartA.pdf. Glebe island and White Bay Masterplan. Inc. The ports Improvement Program and SEPP 61 Exempt and Complying Development. November 2000.
LIVING AND WORKING IN SYDNEY
Glebe Island is an extremely desireable location for developers2. It has huge potential for mixed-use, residential, commercial, industrial and retail projects. Despite that Glebe Island is only a relatively small part of the city; and our individual projects within the Glebe Island masterplan even smaller; there is significance in the type of project developed for this site. At the very least, the types of projects developed on this site (existing as a historically significant site) may be considered a reflection of who owns the rights to the city3.
This corridor has been built on the benefits that businesses are near to each other and to transport infrastructure such as the airport. It has been reinforced by the motorway system focused on the Eastern Distributor linking across the harbour, and by the high amenity and services available in and around the CBD. Within the existing areas of the city, new medium density development has increased. Many inner city areas, including Surry Hills, Ultimo, Glebe, Erskineville and Marrickville, have become desirable4 locations and shops and village centres have been revitalised.
HISTORY OF SYDNEYS GROWTH
Old industrial sites have been converted to residential development.
Over the last 15 to 20 years, the global economic corridor (the concentration of linked jobs and gateway infrastructure from Macquarie Park through Chatswood, St Leonards, North Sydney and the CBD to Sydney Airport and Port Botany) has emerged as a critical feature of Sydney and Australias economy.
2. A proposal for Glebe Island and White Bay to become a commericial and luxury residential tower precinct. The architects complain that the Conservation Management Plan is far too restrictive. Source: http://news.domain.com.au/domain/real-estate-news/towering-visionfor-white-bay-unveiled-20121005-274md.html October 6, 2012 3. Definition of the rights to the city found in source: Harvey, David. The right to the city. Dec 2003. 4. Glebe as a desireable location to live and work. Source: http://www.redwatch.org.au/govt/nsw/the-metro-strategy/extractsfrom-city-of-cities-a-plan-for-sydney-s-future. Extracts from City of Cities - A Plan for Sydneys Future 2013. Section 7. Nicholls, Stephen. Towering vision for White Bay unveiled. National Domain Article.
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Figure 4. Context Plan of Glebe Island in relation to Sydneys growth, also depicting where people may travel to and from
work.
Figure 5. Aerial Map of Sydney Urbanisation. Source: http://chartingtransport.com/2012/10/19/comparing-the-residential-densities-of-australian-cities-2011/. Comparing the residential densities of Australian cities (2011).
Figure 6. Spatial Distribution of Density in Sydney. Source: http://chartingtransport.com/2012/10/19/comparing-the-residential-densities-of-australian-cities-2011/. Comparing the residential densities of Australian cities (2011).
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Line of Inquiry & Conceptual / Thematic Framework Public versus Private Sectors
CAPITALISATION AND URBANISATION
Cities begin through the geographical and social application of a surplus product. Since the urban process is a major channel of surplus use, David Harvey suggests that setting up democratic management over its urban deployment constitutes the right to the city.5
Increasingly, we see the right to the city of Sydney falling into the hands of private interests, turning the city into a gated community6 for the rich. The right to the city is too narrowly confined, restricted in most cases to a small political and economic elite who are in a position to shape cities in line with their own desires.
Figure 6. Leased Area Map. Yellow shows land belonging to Sydney Ports, orange represents public land. Source: http://www.sydneyports.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_ file/0016/1438/PartA.pdf. Glebe island and White Bay Masterplan. Inc. The ports Improvement Program and SEPP 61 Exempt and Complying Development. November 2000.
5. Harvey, David. The right to the city. Dec 2003. Page2. 6. Harvey, David. The right to the city. Dec 2003. Page2.
TEMPORALITY MEMORY AND REFLECTION
A landscape is always a landscape of time, and doubtly so: it is a time of year (a season) and a time of day (morning, noon or evening), as well as a kind of weather (un temps), rain or snow, sun or mist. In the presentation of this time, which unforlds with every image, the present of representation can do nothing other than render infinitely sensible the passing of time, the fleeting instability of what is shown.7
The insertion of an architectural device on Glebe Island introduces new conditions in that place. Whether time is considered to be cyclic or lineal is irrelevent, all that is relevant is that ...it is temporal to come into being. Here we recognise that the city is ever-changing and that our Glebe Island project should be designed with consideration for potential change in the future.
Whatever we create as architects holds extreme
Reflection8 is the translation of the noun Beginnung, which means recollection, consideration, deliberation. The corresponding reflexive verb, sich beginnen, means to recollect, to remember, to call to mind, to think on, to hit upon.
significance. This is especially true for our Glebe Island site: A large site adjacent to the city centre and yet still independent of itself. This site is critical in contributing to the way that the city functions as a whole. Therefore a philosophical approach to thinking in concept and theory is critical in consideration of the project.
7. Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Ground of the Image, Trans Jeff Fort. Fordham University Press. NY 2005 chpt 4 Uncanny landscape. Page 61. 8. Science and Reflection. Stambaugh, Hunter College of City University of NY. Harper Torchbooks, Harper and Row Publishers New York 1977. Page 155. Also see What is Called Thinking? trans Wieck D Fred and Gray, J Glenn. NY Harper and Row 1968, page 180.
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Figure 7. Artists Impression of the Tmeporary Exhibition Facilities to be rected 2014. Source: http://www.toyhobbyretailer.com.au/news/glebe-island-interim-exhibition-centre-contracts-agreed. Glebe Island interim exhibition centre contracts agreed. July 2013
CONTEXT AND PARADIGM
There is a flow in our thinking that evolves in time to expand and restrain our imagination.With this, our intentions and goals as architects also change.
Rapid urbanisation and evolving technology is dislocating us from cultural values and sense of community. As architects, our purpose may be to rediscover how our inheritance can become relevant to what we produce to-
Societies progess over time to produce different forms of sociality. Heirarchal structures have repeated themselves and evolved to see many changes in societal structures; including family structure, daily life and routine, the role of women, human rights, preservation and selection, and many more.
day; that is; how we can make architecture sustainable.
These constant transformations spark a question of sustainability in architecture, as a reaction to a changing culture - What is kept? What is changed? What do we choose to facilitate for? Who de we faciliate for? This process of prioritising values in practice is key to my project.
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Figure 8. Diagram of the different components that the project brief must respond to.
ARCHITECTURE AS POWER - MAPPING PROCESS OF ERASURE
Kevin OBrien insists that by taking something away youre revealing something that is important 9. There is a logic in the use of erasure as a process of mapping in urban analysis. This process is what OBrien refers to as Finding Country 10.
This is clearly a contradiction in itself: To erase in order to remember. Perhaps, however, in this process of reflection; a step backwards could be a step forward.
To erase our entire culture suggests that it is not worth sustaining: That our entire progression has
ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN ERASURE:
little good or no benefit to us now. Perhaps there is even a certain time-frame (such as from the Industrial
What should we erase? What should we sustain?
Revolution) within which we should destroy evidence of our existence: That we should be ashamed of what
The dilemma of urbanisation is difficult to tackle and may lead us architects into frustration. As a society, we are now caught up in the increasing privatisation of spaces, as a result of our current cultural conditions and societal structure.
we have created. This seems to be an unnecessarily extreme radical standpoint that holds no value to our technological advancement.
What do we preserve and what do we destroy in order to create new quality spaces in architectural practice? Do
It is becoming an increasingly common suggestion amongst environmentalists and architects alike that we return to nature in order to be more ecologically sustainable. This is a concept of erasure in suggesting that our technological advances may be an overall hindrance to the way people live rather than an advancement.
you have to destroy to gain quality spaces? Such an investigation in our project leads us to try to understand how to determine what information we should and should not sustain.
9. Brien, Kevin. Urban Studio tutorial and discussion Semester One 2013, Hearth. University of Sydney. 10. Description of the Finding Country project and the Aboriginal idea of Country,
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Figure 9. Example of the use of mapping as a process of revealing something that is important. By removing the existing boundary edge condition, we become more aware of the left-over spaces that emerge towards the waters-edge. Most of these spaces are under-utilised parks and open industrial land. The removal of the waters edge also poses questions about the different planning of suburbs. How can we seemlessly connect the spacious grid of Pyrmont to the fragmented compact Rozelle?
Figure 10. DUALITIES Diagram. The project is an environmentally sustainable hybrid mixed-use project that aims to appeal to residents from a large range of classes, family types and ages. The project is not aiming to be save the world architecture; aiming to solve all societal problems in Sydney; but rather, trying to encourage a range of different people from different backgrounds to be comfortable and happy living together on one site as a community. This concept is not alien to Sydney, in fact, neighbournign suburbs such as Leichhardt and Rozelle are perfect examples of a multiplicity of cultures and nationalities forming one community.
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Figure 11. Demographics Analysis of Surrounding Suburbs. Source: Figure 12. Plan diagram of Surrounding Suburbs.
Analysis derived from information extracted from various data, specifically the Australian Bureau of Statistics (http://www.censusdata. abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/quickstat/105054800 and the Leichhardt Council Area Community Profile (http://profile. id.com.au/leichhardt).
Project Context and Site E Description

My selected individual project is located at Site E of the Masterplan, shown in yellow in Figure 12. Site E is located on the Northern side of the masterplan and is adjacent to the Glebe Island Overseas Cruise Passenger Terminal site. Site E is on terrafima land. The brief for development on Site E calls for row terrace houses with high density to suit the narrow parameters of the site. A multi-unit hybrid housing block is suggested to: - Respond to the small-scale Rozelle housing typology - Provide a break-down reference to scale from The site sits adjacent to the main roads that enter the site from Rozelle and Balmain. The site is also adjoining the Overseas Passenger Terminal site that includes active ports and truck access. Both of these activer services can not be impeded in any way. Pyrmont across to Balmain - Facilitate for a high density - Facilitate for potential student housing for neighbouring university site - Include an open north-facing public plaza
The site receives significant northern sun access with the barren OSPT site to the north. The narrow and long geometry of the site calls for a clever typology and interpretation for density, whilst meeting all RFDC requirements.
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Surrounding program in the masterplan includes a small university to the west of the site and a cultural centre within the White Bay Powerstation to the SouthWest of the site.
11. Residential Flat Design Code. Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources. Planning NSW, Urban Design Advisory Service.
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Figure 12. Developed Masterplan of the Glebe Island Project.

Scale 1-10 000.
Figure 13. Site Mapping Synthesis.

Scale 1-5000 By overlaying several contextual mappings concerning different site conditions to be addressed, a response to the site brief was determined as seen in the written reponse on page 28-29. The investigation of site considerations covered five major concerns: 1. Bicycle routes and laneways through/nearby the site. 2. View sight lines across the masterplan to/through the site. 3. Visual sight lines from external sites and boat access. 4. Nearby parks and green areas. 5. Noise Pollution from nearby active ports.
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1. Bicycle routes and laneways through/nearby the site.
2. View sight lines across the masterplan to/through the site.
3. Visual sight lines from external sites and boat access.
4. Nearby parks and green areas. 5. Noise Pollution from nearby active ports.
Figure 14. Contextual Mappings

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Site Response / Brief

1. PUBLIC PLAZA A public plaza is designed to function as a throughfare between the wharf and Balmain transport systems. The plaza is a quality contribution to public domain in the masterplan and provides relief from concrete structures, while opening the public space to waterfront access. The plaza also acts to open the buildings to light and air access, particularly permitting light to the residential program. 4. SPORTING OVAL The public sporting oval is positioned here to serve the masterplan and the surrounding sports teams of Balmain and Leichhardt that do not have the necessary facilities tfor practice times and games, particularly in school soccer teams. A teams room is also located next 2. WHARF The site is an ideal location for a wharf in the masterplan. The site openly addresses the harbour and is close to public transport access and the White Bay Powerstation (adapted as a cultural centre). The site is adjacent to the Overseas Cruise Passenger Terminal site that incorporates a larger wharf to the far north of Balmain. The wharf is aligned to continue the view and access lines of Batty Street and Robert Street. 5. HYBRID MIXED -USE BLOCK The brief requires a 3:1 ratio net Floor Space ratio on developable area . From calculated density on the narrow site a U-shaped plan with courtyard form was deduced for a prominently residential program. This form grants accessible light and air throughout the day and maintains the storey height of the street to allow for northern light access to the rest of the street to the 3. MULTI-USE PUBLIC BUILDING A flexible multi-use public building is located adjacent to the wharf to provide an in-between place to rest and wait, public bathroom access and temporary markets to activate. south-west. Public program is located adjecent to the plaza and to the wharf mixed-use building to activate the plaza.. Hyrbid residential program takes the form of a courtyard buulding with a mid-rise tower to the North-East facing the harbour. The tower is orientated at an angle to address the harbour and allow for optimised views and light access. to the oval. This building also includes changerooms and sets a spline for public seating adjacent to the small sporting oval aligned with the building.
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Figure 15. Site Location Plan

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Brief and Program Integrated Strategy

The project comprises of several program hubs responding to the site and brief requirements:
1. Public plaza The project recognises the significance of physical and visual access to the site from Balmain and continues the directionality of the street in the form of a plaza. The plaza functions as a path between the new wharf and Balmain, as well as between the new wharf buidling and the hybrid multi-unit housing block.
3. Residential: There are several dwelling types. All residential terraces and apartments are designed to take a u-shaped plan with interior courtyard to optimise northern light and green space access. - Type A: two-storey terrace blocks (narrow) - Type B: two storey terrace blocks (wide and shallow) - Type C: Small apartments
2. Public activation This multi-use block comprises of apartments and terraces, as well as public uses such as a fitness centre, learning centre, cafe, corner store and boutique retails stores. The public program is placed adjacent to the plaza and to each other to spark activation.
- Type D: Tower apartments
4. Mixed-use wharf building with sporting oval This building has an open and flexible plan that includes public facilities such as bathrooms, changerooms, storage rooms and team rooms. The building uses a step in section to provide for optimise seating for the adjacent sporting oval, as well bench space and back walls as a perimeter for an open plan space to be used for temporary market stalls.
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Figure 17. Formal expression

perspective Scale NTS
Figure 18. Program Layout Diagram Figure 16. Program

floor layout diagram Scale NTS Scale 1-2000
Figure 18. Spatial Functional Relationship Diagram

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Figure 19. Functional Relationship Diagram

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Figure 20. Functional Program Quantitative PUBLIC

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Figure 21. Functional Program Quantitative PRIVATE

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Figure 22. Functional Program Qualitative PUBLIC

Functional Space / Users Public Plaza All / Public (General Public: Residents of hybrid residential block, residents of Balmain and surrounding suburbs, external visitors, students, academics) Multi-use Public Facility Activities / Expectations Busy thoroughfare between public transport and wharf, as well as between the localised rich program that surrounds the open public space. There are also rest spaces, seating and covered open areas. Qualities / Experiential Open and inviting with extensive views. Light-filled space that is seemlessly extended to indoors into the multi-use wharf building and glazed facades of the learning centre and boutique shops. The building is a minimalist permeable structure that is open to the plaza and to the panoramic waterfront views. Open indoor-outdoor markets take place both within the building and into the plaza, helping to unify the spaces. Glazed facades allow for passers-by to glance at the shop windows and be enticed to walk in. The spaces are adjacent to the markets space and major pedestrian access points and add to the experience of shoppers to activate the plaza. Light-filled flexible space framed with a glazed curtain wall with floor slabs that fall short of the glass wall, creating-double height spaces. Cosy niches for study and research. Floating ceiling with hidden strip lighting. The sporting oval has a 1.5metre step-down with a punctured screen at the waterfront so balls dont get kicked out of the area. The adjacent facility building uses the section step-down for semicovered seating along the two sides of the oval that have water views. The wharf is placed to continue the line of the plaza, with a small step down. The textured wide boardwalk is continued along the front of the terraces for a waterfront commute to the nearby cultural centre. Relaxing and approachable, shaded by surrounding trees, mostly to the north. Trees are spaced to the south to not block the waterfront views.
Temporary markets, open-air and semi-indoor events, changerooms and public bathroom facilities and baggage storage.
Boutique Shops
Temporary stores that sell fashion and craft items by local designers. The stores are hired on a monthly basis and must change hands each month.
Learning Centre
Friendship space, student lounge including quiet study area, group discussion, flexible spatial arrangement. These spaces can also be used to exhibit student works from local schools.
Sporting Oval
Open-air grass oval for soccer practice and other sports. May be booked by schools and sporting competitions.
Wharf
Decked wharf for boat passengers
Cafe
Take-away coffee, breakfast and lunch
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Figure 23. Functional Program Qualitative PRIVATE

Functional Space / Users Tower Entry / lobby Activities / Expectations Main circulation stair and lift core. Access only to residents. Qualities / Experiential One main circulation route encourages chance meetings. Circulation core is orientated to a view over the courtyard with the Anzac bridge in the background. Apartment door entries are close together and one small corridor for all apartment access allows for potential for conversation. Tower apartments are spacious and oriented to get both northern light and panoramic views. Living areas are located to the north and extended with open-air balcony spaces with glazed sliding door access.
Tower apartments
One, two and three bedroom apartments.
Tower roof top Terrace terraces, backyards and balconies
Rooftop pool and bar Ground floor terrace entrances, backyard access. Balconies with the main living spaces.
The roof top has a 25 x 50 metre pool with sun lounge area, BBQs and bar with adjacent lounge areas. Entrances at the ground floor include private patio spaces with punctuated screening to allow for conversation between residents. It also provides a private outdoor garden space and potential place for a coffee table. Balconies are located to extend the living spaces, allow natural night and air to permeate the terraces and providing visual access and potential communication between residents. Open-air garden spaces with grassed spaces for picnics. Vegetable garden spaces for residents. Panoramic views of the water and the city with the Anzac Bridge in the foreground. Rooftop trees and ferns provide shade and a sense of enclosure. These spaces are wider and more shallow than the 4.2metre row terraces or optimised solar access and natural ventilation. Wider glazing on balcony facades also maximises the views from these locations. A different streetscape with a small laneway is created with a different terrace typology. Located at the South-West end of the site, these apartments have fantastic views of the Anzac Bridge and Pyrmont right on the waterfront. Courtyard garden access. Vertical circulation spaces consist of stairs and a lift core for both the tower and studio apartments. Stairways include multi-storey height vertical gardens with glazed walls facing external views. Large windows are located on walls facing the interior courtyard with extended landings for seating and conversation. Functions as backyard space to ground floor terraces as well as a common circulation space with boardwalk to main entrances to circulation cores. Communal garden and BBQ spaces with seating. The space creates an indoor-outdoor feel to apartments, allows visual access between residents in their apartments at will and a space for residents to interact and socialise.
Terrace roof gardens
Roof gardens and BBQ areas
Wide Terrace types
5.6metre-wide double storey terraces
Studio apartments
Studio apartments
Circulation spaces
Vertical circulation
Internal Courtyard
Internal garden space
GLEBE ISLAND: A BRIEF HISTORY
Reasons why it is important to maintain Glebe Island as a working harbour with active ports: The long term continued operation of Port facilities in Sydney Harbour particularly at White Bay and Glebe Island is important not only in terms of the economic well being of Sydney but also in terms of the identity of the harbour in the minds of Sydney people and Australians generally:
- Sydney Harbour has been a working port since the beginning of European settlement. - The port has grown in parallel with the growth of Sydney and has responded to substantial changes in demand.
Figure 24. Vision for the Port in 1913. Source:

http://www.sydneyports.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/1438/PartA.pdf. Glebe island and White Bay Masterplan. Inc. The ports Improvement Program and SEPP 61 Exempt and Complying Development. November 2000.
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NARRATIVE - STAGES OF GLEBE POINT ISLAND Interweaving the history of Glebe point Island with the project.
development of the area. In 1926, extensive wharfage for timber shipment with rail connections was built by the Sydney Harbour Trust.
Early 19th Century The 1830s saw noxious industries forced out of Sydney Town and relocated in the Leichhardt area. The most significant was the Glebe Island Abattoirs in the 1850s, which further attracted industries such as soap factories and candle makers.
World War II During World War II, Glebe Island became the main US army depot in Sydney. After the war, the timber industry gradually relocated to Homebush and sites became vacant. The White Bay Power Station was transferred to the Electricity Commission of NSW and coal handling wharves were established along White
Late 19th Century Major land reclamation occurred in the late nineteenth century for industrial sites and to create deeper water berths replacing earlier jetties. This dramatically changed the topography of the area.
Bay.
Post World War II In the 1960s when containerisation was introduced, Sydney faced a port capacity problem. A major rationalisation of the Syd-
Early 20th Century Major Industrial uses including the White Bay Power Station and grain storage facilities were established between 1912 and 1920, reinforcing the important links to water transport and access. Housing at White Bay and the abattoirs were demolished and more land was reclaimed for berths and stores.
ney Port area was accompanied by a strong increase in the efficiency of those Sydney Harbour sites which remained in active port use.
Significant changes have taken place recently with older industrial sites surrounding the wharves becoming obsolete or under-utilised 12. Many are currently undergoing redevelopment for residential purposes.
The construction of the Glebe Island Bridge in 1901 and the rail tracks through Rozelle linking Pyrmont and Darling Harbour in 1919 further supported industrial
12. http://www.sydneyports.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/1438/ PartA.pdf. Glebe island and White Bay Masterplan. Inc. The ports Improvement Program and SEPP 61 Exempt and Complying Development. November 2000.
RATIONALE FOR SITE SELECTION: 5 MAIN JUSTIFICATIONS FOR LOCATION OF PROGRAM WITHIN THE SITE AND MASTERPLAN located on the waterfront to maximise profitability and on the sothern end of the site for optimised views and to avoid overshadowing. The tower provides a point of 1. A high density multi-unit residential block is ideal on this site. The site is located in a highly desirable location within Sydney, being a waterfront site adjacent to the CBD with accessible public transport. 5. A permeable multi-use building is inserted adjacent to the plaza to facilitate for visitors that require public 2. The site sits at the end of a streetscape of row terrace typologies to the west of the site. A mulit-unit hybrid block made of a mixture of terrace and apartment types are designed to maintain the streetscape. A high density block also allows for the building envelope to not exceed five storeys, significantly reducing overshadowing onto neighbouring buidings in the street. 6. The sporting Oval is located at the North-east side of the site as it is adjacent to the Overseas Passenger 3. The public wharf is located to align with the view lines of the Balmain street (Batty Street) perpendicular to the length of the site, to continue the view and access lines out to the waterfront. A public plaza maintains the connection between Balmain and the wharf. The site is an ideal location for a wharf in the masterplan, being not too inset into the bay for boat access and for the proximity to local public transport access and to the nearby cultural centre in the White Bay Powerstation. Terminal site, where a vegetation barrier can be located to buffer noise, provide shading. It is also a large area of the site that does not overshadow, justifying a northern placement. Surrounding suburbs are lacking in facilities for sporting practice and Balmain and Leichhardt in particular are home to passionate soccer events. The sporting oval was decided for placement on the site within the masterplan as it covers a large area, is suitable for the adjacency to Balmain where land is heavily compartmentalised and will ideally draw people in to further activate the space. The oval also acts as a perfect 4. A residential tower typology is located at the end of the street, orientated to face the harbour. The tower is buffer between the Overseas Passenger Terminal and the residential street created along Robert Street. amenities and bathrooms. The structure also becomes part of the neighbouring sporting oval. This public program is located adjacent to program intended to activate the site, including fitness centre, learning centre, cafe, retail and corner store. reference of mediation in scale between Pyrmont and Balmain.
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Figure 25. Site Analysis and Evaluation

Zones are evaluated to form the final program. Scale 1-2000
Figure 26. Surrounding Transport Map

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Figure 27. Public Versus Private

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South-East Elevation Scale 1-1000

North-West Elevation Scale 1-1000
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Perspective Scale 1-1000
Design Strategies
1. Contribute to the reading of the main street elevation from Pyrmont.
Figure 31. Perspective from wharf
Figure 32. South-East Elevation

Elevation as viewed from Pyrmont
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2. Maintain the streetscape of Robert Street, as well as elements of Balmain typologies.
3. Permeable facades of the public program buildings adjacent to the plaza. The intention of a permeable facade in this instance is to lead people seemlessly through to explore the spaces beyond the external skins of the building. Several entrances are included in the facade of the Facilities Centre adjacent to the plaza. The plaza includes seating, trees and shaded areas in spaces in-between the line of these entrances to allow for direct movement through the building. The floor level is flush moving from the plaza into the facilities centre and both floor treatments are smooth-finish.
Figure 33. Streetscape Diagram

Continuing the row terrace typology into a hybrid program.
Figure 34. Plaza Paving Plan

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4. Depth in section across the plaza and in the Facilities Centre. Variation in levels and floor surface treatment is intended to encourage people to move differently in the spaces. More variation in levels with the inclusion of steps in the plaza towards the Learning Centre, retail stores and Cafe encourage people to slow down and explore the activity behind the glazed facades.
areas for people to rest, wait, spark conversation or use their mobile phone.
Trees are strategically placed for shading of these areas, with grass strips along edges of the plaza for relief from continuous hard surfaces and to discourage skate boarding and other activities that may hinder the use of the plaza as a thoroughfare.
A combination of granite and concrete paving with smaller paving sizes also encourages slower movement, with trees and seating surrounding to bring the scale of the spaces down, to feel more belonging to the adjacent interior spaces. Moving across the plaza, paving becomes more elongated and simple with the sole use of concrete. Concrete seating with inset strip lighting emerges from the ground in spaces in a seemingly playful manner in various spaces along the edge of the plaza. These are located adjacent to major program
There is a significant variation in section moving across the narrow facilities centre building, with a concrete form protruding upwards to become a large bench, potentially for markets-use. Simple and beautiful concrete columns emerge from the floor that separate the space and give a sense of verticality to the structure. Breaks in the bench allow for a small set of polished concrete stairs upwards to the descend into larger stadium oval seating with grass-strip breaks.
Figure 35. Section through Facilities Centre

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5. Porosity in section in the Learning Centre By shortening suspended floor slabs and inserting vertical cuts on strategic placement through the Learning centre slabs creates large light-filled spaces in communal areas where there is high interaction in the intended program. The interior space adjacent to the curtain glazed wall facade is given double height with the shortening of the above suspended floor slab to make the circulation/exhibition space feel open and light-filled. Users of the above meeting space can overlook the activity on the lower floor. The treatment
of the section also allows viewers from the exterior to see the full extent of activity within the building. There is also a sense of voyeurism along this facade with the exhibition space being experienced by both the users of the building and the passers- by along the glazed wall. Variation in floor treatment and the inclusion of trees, seating and break-spaces from the main plaza thoroughfare encourage the experience of the exhibition.
Figure 36. Cross-Section through Hybrid Residential building, plaza and Facilities Centre (left to right)
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Figure 37. 3D Representations of plaza materiality

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Figure 38. Section through Plaza

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Figure 39. Section through Plaza

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Technology Strategy
Passive Sustainable Design Strategies
Figure 40. Solar Access
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Figure 41. Ventilation and Vertical Circulation
Figure 42. Cross-Ventilation
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Figure 43. Deciduous Planting
Figure 44. Cross-Ventilation and Solar Access in section
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TECHNOLOGICAL STRATEGY: STRUCTURE
The technological strategy evolved directly from existing site conditions and pragmatic requirements. The tectonic language does not have one main strategy. Rather, there are varying hubs of program that require different meaningful treatment to different areas of the site. Hybrid concrete construction is the method of construction, integrating precast concrete and cast in-situ concrete to make best advantage of their different inherent qualities.
BENEFITS OF A CONCRETE FRAME STRUCTURE
Although the structural frame of a building represents only 10 per cent of the total construction cost, the choice of material for the frame has dramatic consequences for subsequent processes. A hybrid concrete construction is able to offer greater speed, quality and overall economy in the construction of the project.
BUILDABILITY 1. Multi-unit hybrid residential building As precast and cast in-situ concrete are used where most approThis unit development utilises uniform precast concrete wall panels, and lightweight concrete floor panels that are easily cast, replicated and transported. Every panel is designed to minimise labour, and speed up construction. This strategy aims to significantly reduce the cost of construction, in comparison to a more conventional concrete block and in situ construction. Residential blocks are one of the easiest programs to utilise pre-cast concrete methods with a repetition of spaces (and panel sizes) across the project. SUSTAINABILITY The construction offers the opportunity to exploit the inherent thermal mass of concrete.This fabric energy storage of the structure can help to control temperatures in the context of a naturally ventilated low-energy building, and consequently reduce the 2. Wharf facilities building The structural frame consists of in-situ concrete columns and core with the roof also designed in pre-cast concrete. The minimalist building is simple in design and construction, utilising the economy and flexibility of cast in-situ concrete. need for air conditioning. priate, construction is relatively simple and logical. The use of HCC also means that a percentage of the frame is manufactured by a skilled workforce in a weatherproof factory, resulting in faster construction and better quality.
CONSIDERATION OF REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS The project considers the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by: 1. Increasing the energy efficiency of the building by incorporating: * A high efficiency central boiler for domestic hot water. * An energy efficient lighting design across program. 2. Allowing for pedestrian orientation by including: * Provision of secure bicycle parking adjacent to the learning centre. * Advanced and adaptable computer wiring to enable work-from-home arrangements. 3. Building and maintenance materials which reduce CO2 emissions and reduce consumption of products requiring embodied energy in their production.
The project uses high fly ash concrete, with fly ash content of 30%. Concrete producers generally include an ash percentage of around 15%, maximum 18%. The more ash content in production, the less CO2 emissions by a significant factor.
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Figure 45. Materiality Section

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ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES FACADE TREATMENT NORTH EAST AND NORTH WEST FACADES VERTICAL PLANTING
Green north facades and roof top assists with shading, glare and air quality. Access to nature enhances productivity for people working at home by relieving stress. Light shelf and balcony floors provide horizontal shading from northern sun. Ambient and direct sunlight bounces off external and internal light shelf. Water Initiatives: Water Collection tanks located beneath ground level and is used in vertical gardens. Glare control: Landscape planting to window mullions helps reduce city glare.
Overall: Thermal mass - Heat build up in the concrete ceilings from the days activities is removed by the cool night air. Night purge - During the night windows can be opened to use night air to cool internal spaces. Landscape Break-out balconies, winter gardens in circulation spaces and rooftops are extensively landscaped to provide occupants access to nature.
Recycled water is used in vertical gardens running the full height of the northern facades and circulation spaces. They assist with glare, air quality and shading.
SOUTH EAST AND SOUTH WEST FACADES
Plants are grown from specific planter boxes built into the balconies of every storey.
Operable openings with operable timber shutters provide full summer shading while still allowing filtered daylight and views. Summer terrace: Edge spaces for thermal buffering, social interaction and vertical circulation.
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Figure 46. Typical Plans

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Figure 47. Sustainable Materials Selection

Perspective
CIRCULATION AND PLANNING
Figure 48. Form and Dimension Analysis Diagram

Showing Floor to Area Perimeter Ratio A rectangular shape will have a good floor area to perimeter ratio. This contributes to lower energy consumption and a smaller amount of construction material is required.
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Figure 49. Vertical Circulation in plan

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Figure 50. Vertical Circulation perspective

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Figure 51. Vertical Circulation elevation

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Precedent Studies Analysis and Design Implications

MOBIUS HOUSE BEN VAN BERKEL AND CAROLINE BOSS The Moebius House is a response to the uctuating patterns of modern life. In the concept of the Moebius strip and the idea to facilitate for two individuals living together, yet separately, the house is a formal and spatial experiment in modern, uctuating domesticity.
This precedent was inspiration to explore the potential exibility that housing can offer to facilitate for a changing modern family, particularly with zoning diagrams and planning.
Figure 52. Mobius Strip

Diagram by UN Studio displaying programs of living, sleeping and working within the home.Source: http://stor ies of hous es. blogspot.com.au/2006/09/ mbius-house-in-amsterd am - by - b e n - v an . ht m l. Article Mbius House.
Van Berkel and Bos appropriate the Mobius Strip as a theoretical template, as opposed to a literal interpretation in design. The twisted gure eight whose one side appears to be two sides is interpreted in the design in conveying how two people can live together, and yet apart, meeting at certain points which become shared spaces.
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53. Program Diagram by UN Studio displaying programs of living, sleeping and working within the home.Source: http://stor ies of hous es. blogspot.com.au/2006/09/ mbius-house-in-amsterd am - by - b e n - v an . ht m l. Article Mbius House.
Figure 54. Zoning program diagram

Mobius House, Amsterdam. Sleeping areas are shown in pink, living in green and working in blue.
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55. Mobius Strip Diagram by UN Studio displaying programs of living, sleeping and working within the home.Source: http://storiesofhouses.blogspot.com. au/2006/09/mbius-house-in-amsterdamby-ben-van.html. Article Mbius House.
Figure 56. Zoning program diagram of typical apartment in hybrid multi-unit residential project. Sleeping areas are shown in pink, living in green and working in blue.
The analysis of the Mobius House led me to determine the planning rules for housing planning in the project:
1. Locate sleeping areas on upper floors. 2. Locate study and work areas adjacent to circulation spaces with direct access to natural ventilation. 3. Locate living areas on lower floors. 4. Locate living areas with a northern orientation. 5. Locate the cores consisting of kitchens, bathrooms and laundries in the centre of the plan. 6. Locate vertical circulation adjacent or within central cores. 7. Do not have kitchens and bathrooms opposite each

of a typical terrace home. Services may be located in the basement if required, living spaces on the ground floor and sleeping spaces on the upper floors. Source: Friedman, Avi. Town and Terraced Housing: For Affordability and Sustainability. Routledge Publishing 2002.
other. 8. Ensure all bedrooms, work areas, kitchens and bathrooms have direct access to ventilation.
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of typical floor plans of the hybrid residential project. Services are located in a central core with circulation, living spaces on the ground floor and sleeping spaces on the upper floors.
Figure 59. Materiality
Source: http://storiesofhouses.blogspot.com.au/2006/09/mbius-house-in-amsterdam-by-ben-van.html. Article Mbius House. The raw materials used in the Mobius house were also an inspiration to the final design. The hybrid residential project incorporate the use The Mobius house design is comprised of a variety of lines, directions and structural systems of various elements to create one entity. of concrete (both in-situ and pre-cast) for the main structural elements in the same way as the Mobius House. Glazing is adopted for significant sections of facades in the plaza for various architectural purposes, The design crashes different materials and elements together to herald the individual qualities of each material and element. the dullness and weight of the concrete heightens the fragility and transparency of the glass, and vice versa. such as: - For passers-by to observe the contents of retail spaces - To entice people to slow down and approach the building to be involved in activity seen within through glazed elements - To permit light to fill spaces In the design of the Mobius house, Berkel and Boss wrap the house in a green haze of glazing. This use of the reflective and translucent surface results in variations of appearance and function in the changing environment, - To slow people down in thoroughfare with reflective surfaces as a distractive element - To reflect (literally) people passing by and creating another dimension of activity climate, movement of people and media broadcast.
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TONY CARO VICTORIA PARK ZETLAND APARTMENTS 2009
This proposal responds directly to the immediate and wider social context of the community in terms of locational, lifestyle and affordability aspirations. The location of the site offers residents a high degree of access to a wide range of services, facilities and environments. Green Square is emerging as a precinct of rich social diversity through its programs of housing choice, mix of uses, high quality public domain, recreational framework, access to transport and environmental vision. Residents of Victoria Square will be ideally placed to contribute to, participate in and enjoy its evolving urban fabric and culture. 12
Figure 60. Perspective view Source:

http://www.tonycaroarchitecture.com.au/. Tony Caro Architecture

12. http://www.tonycaroarchitecture.com.au/. Excerpt from Tony Caro Architecture, Project Description.
Tony Caro designed a project for the Victoria Square Masterplan in 2009. The future context of the site will be a highly desirable medium to high density mixed-use environment with a predominance of residential use. The project recognises that a pedestrian spine is an important component of the public domain strategy. The site is designed to have a fine grain of public access by the creation of the two proposed cross streets and additional pedestrian links connecting through to the existing footpath on South Dowling Street. A high-quality residential environment for occupants is top priority; carparking is restricted to the building
footprint and there is a strong landscape setting with streets, roof gardens and the inclusion of a large interior courtyard space. The separate buildings have diversity in scale and form to create rich and diverse urban settings 13.
13. http://www.tonycaroarchitecture.com.au/. Tony Caro Architecture, Project Description.

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STANISIC ASSOCIATES GEORGIA
132 apartments and soho; continuous slim line, perimeter building to sub-urban street and new shared lane; large, multi-level, communal courtyard and private roof terraces; 2 level basement carpark; 9 storey height with cross-over galleries and 2 double lift circulation; 1 + 2 storey apartments with cross flow. 14

stanisic.com.au. Project description
The planning of Stanisics apartments were particularly informative in my design process. The arrangement of a hybrid program, vertical circulation cores as well as analysis of internal apartment floor planning aided in my design development.

14. stanisic.com.au. Short Project description excerpt.

STANISIC ASSOCIATES 2222
Similar to the Site E Glebe Island project, this development is on the northern end of a long block. The project was of particular use to my process in the mediation between the larger-scaled adjoining apartment buildings and smaller scale historic hotels, terrace houses and nearby Buddhist temple.

The project also led me to investigate the Green Square Structural Masterplan, which also aided the project development in further consideration of architectural quality and enhanced residential amenity. This includes inspiration for movable screening in my design. Furthermore, this project was an initial basis to practice achieving a higher density.

Figure 68. Movable balcony screens Source:

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Figure 69. Diagram of clarity in planning - Hybrid mixed-use

Sources: stanisic.com.au. Stanisic Associates http://www.tonycaroarchitecture.com.au/. Tony Caro Architecture
Appendix A
UNDERLYING THEMES AND CONCEPTS
TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVATISATION
After the home and the workplace, public spaces are the most prominent building blocks of the city. They act as social catalysts
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Some may argue, however, that the internet and mobile phones provide a means for people to engage and negotiate face-to-face meetings that take place somewhere in the city. Online participation therefore often has the potential to facilitate new connections to work, civic participation and a healthy social fabric. It is apparent that the line of distinction between Public and Private
places where urban residents and
members of neighbouring communities meet to create and maintain social ties and friendships and engage in discussion and debate.
We have an increasing reliance on social computing (facebook, instagram, twitter, youtube etc) producing innumerable repercussions in the use of public spaces. Some have argued that the negative consequences far out whey the positive; particularly in regards to dislocation from community and locality. Such voices interpret these forms of interaction as alarming expressions of individualism and privatisation of leisure time that provide evidence for the disappearance of traditional forms of civic engagement and community values.
spaces is becoming more and more blurred.
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TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVATISATION (CONT)
As architects we may recognise the architectural implications of social computing and choose to create spaces that encourage/facilitate for face-to-face social interaction in public spaces. In my design I have created flexible, permeable and informal public spaces to establish positive social spaces. I have also incorporated porosity in my building to cut vertically through various stories, aligning these vertical shafts with group lounges and study spaces. Some study spaces also include a learning centre that facilitates for people to use computing devices in one space, including wifi access, ports and public computers/i-pads. The design allows for a multiplicity of social events.
balcony corridors and visual exchange spaces such as balconies and terraces as opportunities for incidental exchange. On enlarged stairway landings for example, I have included seating as a simple gesture as a resting/meeting place on the ascent to an apartment or roof garden. Similarly, entrances to apartments are articulated with protrusions/terraces outside of front doors that encourage engagement through the opportunity to appropriate a balcony space, although in part cared for as if it were private.
Architects may also design private spaces in such a way that the spaces are not overly-accommodating, and perhaps the user is encouraged to go outside and interact with people. In my design I have targeted circulation spaces including corridors, stairways, landings and
THE ROLE OF THE ARCHITECT SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN PRACTICE
This project questions the role of the architect and the extent of their responsibilities. What/who is he/ she responsible to/for? How does the architect make decisions when faced with ethical challenges arising from practice and the wider context of architectural settings and ambitions?
Architecture is a functional exercise. The decisions made by architects have a continuing impact on the users that they design for on a day-to-day basis. These decisions are ethical ones, however, also fall in line with best practice.
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Acknowledgements
I would like to extend my gratitude to the University of Sydney for providing such a thorough architectural program. Many thanks again to Michael Zanardo, also to Melissa Wilson and Sam Rigoli for their advice and expertise.
FINAL DESIGN PROJECT Drawings (Original @ A1)
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FINAL DESIGN PROJECT Drawings Presentation (Original 6 x A1)
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Appendix B
The overlapping stages that led to the resolved design proposition:
STAGE 01 STAGE 02 STAGE 03 STAGE 04 STAGE 05 STAGE 06 STAGE 07 STAGE 08 STAGE 09 STAGE 10 STAGE 11 STAGE 12
Initial Research, Brief and Site Analysis (Group) Revised Research, Brief and Site Analysis (Individual) Site Rationale and Evaluation, Draft Masterplans (Group) Final Masterplan and Site Selection Site Model, Massing Options and Diagramming Massing Options, Diagramming and Planning Design Proposal - Interim Presentation Design Development and Rationale Spatial Sequencing and Tightening the Plan Design Tectonics and Detailed Design Compiling Final Draft Presentation Final Presentation and Portfolio
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STAGE 01 - 02 Initial Research, Brief and Site Analysis
Figure 71.
Initial Site Analysis Surrounding ports and transportation
Figure 70. Initial Site Analysis Mapping significant surrounding program
SCHOOL
CARPARK
Figure 72. Initial Site Analysis Overlaying a high density residential plan: Surry Hills case study
Figure 73. Initial Program and Spatial Possibilities Mapping and diagramming the terrace house
STAGE 03 Site Rationale and Evaulation, Draft Masterplans (Group)
Figure 74. Group One Draft Masterplan
Figure 75. Group Two Draft Masterplan
Figure 76. Group Three Draft Masterplan
Figure 77. Group Four Draft Masterplan
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STAGE 04 Final Masterplan and Site Selection
Figure 78. Draft Masterplan - Combination of the best qualities of group masterplans
Figure 79. FinalMasterplan
Figure 80. Masterplan density workups
Figure 81. Sydney Standards for Street widths and building heights
STAGE 05 Site Model, Massing Options and Diagramming
Figure 83. Terrace typology initial

planning
Figure 82. Terrace typology initial planning
Figure 84. Terrace typology

initial planning - Interior courtyard
Figure 85. Terrace typology initial planning
Figure 86. Terrace typology initial planning - Interior

courtyard
Figure 87. Terrace typology initial planning - Interior

courtyard
Figure 87. Terrace

typology initial planning - Interior courtyard
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Massing Options, Diagramming and Planning
Figure 88. Building

sections
Figure 89. Building

plan
Figure 90. Building

massing diagrams
Figure 91.
Conncections diagram
Figure 92. Context

diagram
Figure 93. Final Massing envelope
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STAGE 07 Design Proposal - Interim Presentation
Figure 95. Floor plans and typical floor plans
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
STAGE 08
Design Development and Rationale
Figure 96. Public versus Private diagram Figure 97. Cross-section through interior courtyard and terrace typologies
Figure 98.
Surrounding Transport Map Revised
Figure 99.
New green roof plan
Figure 100.
Further development in ground floor plan
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Spatial Sequencing and Tightening the Plan
Figure 101.
Typical plans - Stage One
Figure 102.
Typical plans - Stage Two
Figure 103.
Typical plans - Stage Three
Figure 104
Typical plans - Stage Four
STAGE 10
Design Tectonics and Detailed Design
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Development of Sections
Figure 105
Revised Roof plan
Figure 107
Finalised Ground Floor Plan
Figure 108
Finalised Section for 1-50
Figure 109
Gate Pavillion Design
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STAGE 10-11 Final Presentation and Reflection
Figure 110
Final 3D Visualisation
Figure 111
Final Ground Floor Plan
Figure 112
Final Aerial View in Site
Figure 113
Draft Model
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GLEBE ISLAND MASTERPLAN

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GLEBE ISLAND MASTERPLAN

AMANDA JAYNE STOLLERY | GRADUATION STUDIO 2014 M. ARCH UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

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high-density, high-variation masterplan.

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OVERALL PROJECT AIM

LIVING AND WORKING IN SYDNEY

HISTORY OF SYDNEYS GROWTH

Old industrial sites have been converted to residential development.

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CAPITALISATION AND URBANISATION

TEMPORALITY MEMORY AND REFLECTION

Whatever we create as architects holds extreme

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CONTEXT AND PARADIGM

day; that is; how we can make architecture sustainable.

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ARCHITECTURE AS POWER - MAPPING PROCESS OF ERASURE

ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN ERASURE:

What should we erase? What should we sustain?

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Project Context and Site E Description

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Figure 12. Developed Masterplan of the Glebe Island Project.

Figure 13. Site Mapping Synthesis.

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1. Bicycle routes and laneways through/nearby the site.

2. View sight lines across the masterplan to/through the site.

3. Visual sight lines from external sites and boat access.

Figure 14. Contextual Mappings

Site Response / Brief

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Figure 15. Site Location Plan

Brief and Program Integrated Strategy

- Type D: Tower apartments

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Figure 17. Formal expression

Figure 18. Program Layout Diagram Figure 16. Program

Figure 18. Spatial Functional Relationship Diagram

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Figure 19. Functional Relationship Diagram

Figure 20. Functional Program Quantitative PUBLIC

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Figure 21. Functional Program Quantitative PRIVATE

Figure 22. Functional Program Qualitative PUBLIC

Decked wharf for boat passengers

Take-away coffee, breakfast and lunch

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Figure 23. Functional Program Qualitative PRIVATE

One, two and three bedroom apartments.

Tower roof top Terrace terraces, backyards and balconies

Terrace roof gardens

Roof gardens and BBQ areas

Wide Terrace types

5.6metre-wide double storey terraces