CASE STUDIES :

STUDENT APARTMENT BUILDING

WELLINGTON / NEW ZEALAND

COMPLETED - JULY 2004

Background Brief

 

Following on from previous projects with an adjacent university the brief for this building was to create apartment space for up to 200 students on a central city site.

The site dictated a multi storey building with a basement carpark.  The town planning requirements in conjunction with the building program and method restricted the building height to six stories.

In the basement carpark
Concept

The apartments are a mix of studios and two bedrooms accessed around a central core of lift and stairs.

The nature of the layout allowed the building to be engineered as timber framed over the six stories  with only small accounts of structural steel bracing.

The project was fast tracked to meet the demand for occupation at the start of a university semester.

The building was completed in less than eight months
Interior Environment

Each apartment has a mixture of timber paneled and painted walls with carpeted floors to the bedroom and living spaces.

The orientation of the apartments means that the majority receive good daylight and sun throughout the year.

A Variety of colours and materials provide an attractive interior.
External Environment

The building fronts two streets and the ground floor has canopies to shelter from the weather around these street frontages.

A courtyard to the west at ground level provides outdoor space to the complex.

The external cladding of the building has been broken up into distinctive layers through the use of projections and recession of planes and through the use of colour.

The exterior features a variety of colours to the panels to break up the mass of the facade.
Result
The project has provided some sought after accommodation and investment apartments in an area of high demand.
 
 
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