Hill Thalis Architects + Urban Projects Pty Ltd.

STUDIOS 54

STUDIOS 54

Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects

STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman

SERVICE ENGINEERING
Viscona

DEVELOPER & BUILDER
Trinium Group

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Paul Bekker Engineering

PLANNING CONSULTANT
Sara Roach Planning Services

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Arim Consulting

HERITAGE ADVICE
John Oultram Heritage & Design

PHOTOGRAPHS
Brett Boardman, Alex Rink/Aaron Murray

AREA
126 m²

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Surry Hills, Australia

CATEGORY
Apartments

STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman© Brett Boardman

Text description provided by architect.

This project poses a simple architectural question – what can one small shop and four apartments contribute to the life and vitality of the city.

Studios 54 is located between a large residential development to the north and a heritage listed corner pub to the south. The building forms a transition between these two distinctive scales, acknowledging the tight.

STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman
STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman

Within a site area of approx. 126sqm, the project contains a commercial space on the street level, and four single floor apartments above. Each apartment is flexibly planned with a series of service pods on the southern.

This flexible plan arrangement offers a number of possibilities for occupation and would happily accommodate.

Residential, home office and/or commercial uses. Each apartment achieves ample sunlight and ventilation, despite the heavily constrained urban context.

As urban housing, this project explores the myriad ways that a diverse range of unknown future occupants can inflect and individualize interior space to make a home. This deliberately equivocal interior character.

STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman
STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman

The exterior of the building is formed from a palette of white materials with differing surface textures – comprising off-form concrete, textured rendered walls, matte ceramic tiles and glossy, vitrified panels. Against.

This plays a rich colour theme of red, blue, yellow and turquoise that celebrates the presence of individual occupancies through small scale details such as blinds, letterboxes and soffits.

The building is capped with a communal roof terrace – complete with planter beds that intermittently throw sprays of white flowers above the horizontal parapet line of the building.

Textured rendered walls, matte ceramic tiles and glossy, vitrified panels. Against this plays a rich colour theme of red, blue, yellow and turquoise that celebrates the presence.

STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman
STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman

As urban housing, this project explores the myriad ways that a diverse range of unknown future occupants can inflect and individualize interior space to make a home.

Within a site area of approx. 126sqm, the project contains a commercial space on the street level, and four single floor apartments above. Each apartment is flexibly planned with a series.

This flexible plan arrangement offers a number of possibilities for occupation and would happily accommodate.

STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman
STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman

Within a site area of approx. 126sqm, the project contains a commercial space on the street level, and four single floor apartments above.

Each apartment is flexibly planned with a series of service pods on the southern.

Studios 54 is located between a large residential development to the north and a heritage listed corner pub to the south. The building forms a transition between these two distinctive scales, acknowledging the tight urban.

STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman
STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman

Studios 54 is located between a large residential development to the north and a heritage listed corner pub to the south. The building forms a transition between these two distinctive scales, acknowledging the tight urban.

Possibilities for occupation and would happily accommodate residential, home office and/or commercial uses.

Individualize interior space to make a home. This deliberately equivocal interior character is contrasted with a more playful and definitive architectural.

The exterior of the building is formed from a palette of white materials with differing surface textures – comprising off-form concrete, textured rendered walls, matte ceramic tiles and glossy, vitrified panels.

STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman
STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman

Against this plays a rich colour theme of red, blue, yellow and turquoise that celebrates the presence of individual occupancies through small scale details such as blinds, letterboxes and soffits.

This deliberately equivocal interior character is contrasted with a more playful and definitive architectural presence in the urban realm.

Each apartment is flexibly planned with a series of service pods on the southern facade that frame a long open plan space that runs from the front to the rear.

Each apartment is flexibly planned with a series of service pods on the southern facade that frame a long open plan space that runs from the front to the rear.

STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman
STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman

Studios 54 is located between a large residential development to the north and a heritage listed corner pub to the south. The building forms a transition between these two distinctive scales.

This project poses a simple architectural question – what can one small shop and four apartments contribute to the life and vitality of the city.

As urban housing, this project explores the myriad ways that a diverse range of unknown future occupants can inflect and individualize interior space to make a home.

Textured rendered walls, matte ceramic tiles and glossy, vitrified panels. Against this plays a rich colour theme of red, blue, yellow and turquoise that celebrates the presence.

STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman
STUDIOS 54
© Brett Boardman

The building is capped with a communal roof terrace – complete with planter beds that intermittently throw sprays of white flowers above the horizontal parapet line of the building.


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