Urbanest / Bates Smart

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Sydney, Australia
  • Architects: Bates Smart
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  8094
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Richard Glover

Text description provided by the architects. The project is located in central Sydney and has been designed to create a lively, contextual building that reflects both its use as student accommodation and the character of the area.

Urbanest / Bates Smart - Windows, Brick, Facade
© Richard Glover

The 16-storey ‘L’ shaped building accommodates 334 students in four to six bedroom cluster apartments arranged to maximise the number of apartments with northern aspect and dual orientation. Communal recreation facilities are arranged around a courtyard at ground floor with a single level basement accommodating plant space and bicycle parking.

Urbanest / Bates Smart - Windows, Facade
© Richard Glover

The building form acknowledges the site’s corner location and has been designed to reinforce the surrounding scale and character by aligning the tower setback with the adjacent buildings.

Modular prefabricated wall and window panels are repeated in an alternating pattern across the facade to create a dynamic composition, with expressed horizontal band at floor level providing the building with a sense of scale and horizontal expression.

Urbanest / Bates Smart - Windows, Facade
© Richard Glover

The full height window panels increase the sense of space within the bedrooms and are divided into a fixed clear glass panel and an operable coloured glass panel. The brightly coloured glass panels are inspired by the surrounding context and reflect the youthful vitality of student life.

Urbanest / Bates Smart - Windows, Facade
© Richard Glover

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Address:Sydney NSW, Australia

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Cite: "Urbanest / Bates Smart" 12 Jun 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/142594/urbanest-bates-smart> ISSN 0719-8884

© Richard Glover

都市学生公寓 / Bates Smart

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