Dune

Architecture
Dune

15 Storey Luxury Multi-residential building in Main Beach. / Single per plate and dual floor apartments.

15 Storey Luxury Multi-residential building in Main Beach.
Single per plate and dual floor apartments.

How can we improve the public realm interface & better the connection from the parade to the beach?

Ascending the Dune

Main Beach Parade creates a project that explores ideas about thresholds. City to beach; building to dune; public to private; communal space to personal residence.

Diagrammatically the design seeks humble approaches to amplifying the experience of place. Much like the process of moving through the layers of landscape that precede the arrival at the openness of the beach, the architecture pursues ideas of compression, release and drama. Importantly the key to this is to allow the building to be subservient to the potency of the coastal environment. Less is more…

Main Beach Parade creates a project that explores ideas about thresholds. City to beach; building to dune; public to private; communal space to personal residence.

Diagrammatically the design seeks humble approaches to amplifying the experience of place. Much like the process of moving through the layers of landscape that precede the arrival at the openness of the beach, the architecture pursues ideas of compression, release and drama. Importantly the key to this is to allow the building to be subservient to the potency of the coastal environment. Less is more…

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Thresholds

The streetscape interface seeks to defy the typical condition that exists along Main Beach Parade. The design resists the temptation to privatise the site by creating barriers to the street, removing walls, gates, fences and services in favour of a series of open and meandering stairs that invite the public eye to enter the private realm. The thresholds to entry are pushed deep into the site allowing the city to penetrate and contribute to the life of the development. After all the beach belongs to everyone.

The streetscape interface seeks to defy the typical condition that exists along Main Beach Parade. The design resists the temptation to privatise the site by creating barriers to the street, removing walls, gates, fences and services in favour of a series of open and meandering stairs that invite the public eye to enter the private realm. The thresholds to entry are pushed deep into the site allowing the city to penetrate and contribute to the life of the development. After all the beach belongs to everyone.

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Experiential diversity

Beyond the threshold of privatisation, the building becomes about reaching the ocean. The carefully arranged ground floor plan pushes forward to the beach in a subtle manner, prioritising open landscape over internalised space. A series of modestly scaled rooms create a diversity of experiences based around, exercise, leisure, outlook and community; a series of pavilions.

Beyond the threshold of privatisation, the building becomes about reaching the ocean. The carefully arranged ground floor plan pushes forward to the beach in a subtle manner, prioritising open landscape over internalised space. A series of modestly scaled rooms create a diversity of experiences based around, exercise, leisure, outlook and community; a series of pavilions.

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The architecture seeks to create a series of individual homes within the overall composition of a tower form; acknowledging both the city scale and that of the humanised residence.
An icon of restraint

The tower becomes another exercise in restraint. A continuous and deliberately singular form is created through the device of a spandrel that holds the building as an object. Within this, a nuanced series of shaped walls and screens control the interfaces with neighbours, lateral views to the ocean and control environmental concerns such as solar shading and wind mitigation.

The material palette is kept textural and tonal to compliment the simple plan arrangement and tower form, allowing the facades to be uncluttered. Screens and Juliette balconies offer a sense of depth and articulation through shadow along the length of the building.

The tower becomes another exercise in restraint. A continuous and deliberately singular form is created through the device of a spandrel that holds the building as an object. Within this, a nuanced series of shaped walls and screens control the interfaces with neighbours, lateral views to the ocean and control environmental concerns such as solar shading and wind mitigation.

The material palette is kept textural and tonal to compliment the simple plan arrangement and tower form, allowing the facades to be uncluttered. Screens and Juliette balconies offer a sense of depth and articulation through shadow along the length of the building.

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Skyhomes

The typology of a single apartment per floor and double-storey apartments, allow for a truly subtropical approach to environmental performance. The façade is tuned to enable strong resident control allowing for variable modes to foster cross-ventilation and protection in inclement weather. Deep facades and the shaping of walls to steer towards the preferred orientation for solar gain and prevailing breezes allow the building to foster ideas about humble innovation.

The typology of a single apartment per floor and double-storey apartments, allow for a truly subtropical approach to environmental performance. The façade is tuned to enable strong resident control allowing for variable modes to foster cross-ventilation and protection in inclement weather. Deep facades and the shaping of walls to steer towards the preferred orientation for solar gain and prevailing breezes allow the building to foster ideas about humble innovation.

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A slender, elegantly proportionate form embellished by modest, deliberate and functional articulation creates a building that offers humble innovation on a site that is gifted with immeasurable environmental assets.