Tony Owen Partners PTY Ltd.

Eliza Apartments

Eliza Apartments
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ELIZA APARTMENTS

Tony Owen Partners

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
M+g Consulting

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Tony owen

MANUFACTURERS
Penetron

SHOP DRAWINGS
Gehry technologies

DESIGN TEAM
Esan Rahmani, Michael Civovic, Diana Quintero Saul, Angela Selke

SHOP DRAWINGS
Gehry Technologies

ENGINEERS
Inhabit Group - Bruce Wymond, Ryan Hannam, Steven Lu

FACADE MANUFACTURE & INSTALLATION
Micos

STONE FACADE MANUFACTURE AND INSTALLATION
Stoneplus

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Sydney nsw, Australia

CATEGORY
Apartments

The site is located on Sydney’s historic Elizabeth Street on Hyde Park. and uses traditional elegant contextual materials such as sandstone and steel in a contemporary way using digital technology to mould the façade to the changing conditions on the skin.

Eliza Apartments
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Eliza Apartments
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The profile of every level is different. This responds to the differing unit plans, views and sun on each level. 3-D modelling software and Rhino scripting is used to create a façade that is progressively responsive to changing conditions.

The tapering shape of the penthouse maximises solar access and views to Hyde Park and terminates the fluid geometry.

Eliza Apartments
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Eliza Apartments
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The façade is made from hundreds of individually shaped metal panels.

We sought a geometry which provided a degree of repetition but which could allow for every different floor plate.

Eliza Apartments
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Eliza Apartments
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Its warping planes often results in double curvatures; diagonal cuts are used to ensure that we could use single curve panels to make the warped planes.

The panels were laser cut by robot as were the fluidly shaped sandstone panels.

The support structure, also in steel, consists of multi-curved frames which were located in space by the computer to ensure everything fit together.

Eliza Apartments
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Eliza Apartments
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Eliza Apartments
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The shop drawings were prepared by Frank Gehry Digital studio.

The 17 storey building contains 19 units with most levels having one 4 bedroom unit per floor with a 3 storey penthouse on top.


Eliza Apartments
Floor Plan 8
Eliza Apartments
Floor Plan 14
Eliza Apartments
Elevation

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