This proposal seeks to develop a living environment that respects privacy while encouraging a sense of community.  The scheme seeks to deliver a gradient of privacy from the surrounding public streets to the semi-public internal gardens, from the semi-private courtyards and terraces to the private internal spaces of each unit.

The design provides a coherent and readable street edge along Taniwha Street while activating a new edge to the Maybury Reserve.

The overall scheme provides a series of walkways connecting the site to the surrounding streets and Maybury Reserve all overlooked by residents.

The development is broken into smaller components separated by the glazed entry/staircores and the semi-public open accessways.

External materials are chosen for permanence, low maintenance, thermal and acoustic performance and ‘lifetime’ costing analysis.  They consist of brick, ‘pan section’ Colorsteel, precast concrete and glass.  The variety assists in modulating the elevations to achieve a suburban rhythm and an individual identity for each unit.

The landscape design develops a series of off-set gardens within a semi-private internal courtyard.  These relate to the built form.  The landscaping outside the site boundary, including new road, footpath and cycle-ways loosens and becomes more organic as it relates to the movement of the creek. 

Environmentally sensitive design principles are adopted and include:

Passive thermal heating and cooling
Shallow floor plate for natural light penetration
Grey water harvesting and re-use
Solar water heating
High levels of thermal insulation
Stormwater filtration in landscape swales

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