PTW Architects in association with Jones Coulter Young
Sydney, Perth
PTW is one of the largest architectural firms in Australia and the Pacific Region with 150 staff and offices in Sydney and Beijing. Areas of expertise include sports and Olympic projects, residential, cultural, health, master planning and interiors.
Jones Coulter Young has developed a reputation for design excellence and innovation in Western Australia through its involvement in high profile urban design, transport and civic design projects.
Their design concept includes the following elements:
- All the principal elements are sculpturally articulated yet unified visually by the first-floor lobby with its glass façade sheltered by folded mesh sun and wind screens.
- The highly adaptable “black box” studio theatre with its grid and a surrounding passage will enable extensive exploration of experimental and in-the-round performance styles.
- The building, itself folded into the William/Roe Street site, cleverly uses both existing heritage buildings and new built forms to create a living intervention into the existing streetscape.
- This folding of space has informed key elements of the building, creating a simple yet delicate language which is reflected in the sun and wind shades, the fly tower and the walls that enclose spaces and building parts.
- Japanese traditions of origami and lantern-making combine with ideas of layered papers; coloured and embossed to create changing and beautiful screening systems for glazed areas.
- Folded sunscreens opaque to the west and transparent to the south shield the building from the intensity of western light and the force of the south westerlies but equally create “shadows”, people seen in silhouette, layering of fabrics and etched penetrations casting shadows and expressing light patterns.
- Extensive use of aluminium cladding and framing systems as well as the use of perforated aluminium mesh.
- Our target is to create a building based on smart systems, both passive and active (as appropriate), which focus on high quality environments with low energy use and low maintenance. This includes maximising the use of daylight in suitable areas, finding smart, efficient and effective energy minimising options where artificial lighting is required.
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