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Hawthorn Park

356 Dwellings; 567 Car Parks / 24659m² NSA; 2025m² Retail Space / 53480m² GFA (Total Building Area)

Hawthorn Park

356 Dwellings; 567 Car Parks
24659m² NSA; 2025m² Retail Space
53480m² GFA (Total Building Area)

This campus-style residential development is planned around a Jack Merlo designed parkland, creating a dynamic pedestrian connection between Burwood and Camberwell Road.

Spatial Experience

Public piazzas are placed at the site’s entry points drawing Burwood Road’s existing green edge through to the plaza located on Camberwell Road’s more robust presentation. Feature stairs cut a pathway into the open contoured space activated with resident amenity, retail and F&B. A glass bottomed swimming pool spans between buildings and over the plaza, creating a spectacular front door to the project, and also locating the comprehensive resident amenity floor.

Ideas of movement and gently curved eroded forms create a layered spatial experience and provide visual connection, interest, and recreation, whilst offering excellent respite from the immediate urban context.

In contrast to the softly edged central zones, a hard blue stone envelope has been established around the perimeter to create a sense of protection and containment. This hard edge is driven by a series of feature elements which serve to visually break down the composition along the street and create a sense of community identity.

Public piazzas are placed at the site’s entry points drawing Burwood Road’s existing green edge through to the plaza located on Camberwell Road’s more robust presentation. Feature stairs cut a pathway into the open contoured space activated with resident amenity, retail and F&B. A glass bottomed swimming pool spans between buildings and over the plaza, creating a spectacular front door to the project, and also locating the comprehensive resident amenity floor.

Ideas of movement and gently curved eroded forms create a layered spatial experience and provide visual connection, interest, and recreation, whilst offering excellent respite from the immediate urban context.

In contrast to the softly edged central zones, a hard blue stone envelope has been established around the perimeter to create a sense of protection and containment. This hard edge is driven by a series of feature elements which serve to visually break down the composition along the street and create a sense of community identity.

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Master Plan
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  Lifestyle and Culture
  
  A glass bottomed swimming pool spans between buildings and over the plaza, creating a spectacular front door to the project, and also locating the comprehensive resident amenity floor.
  
  Ideas of movement and gently curved eroded forms create a layered spatial experience and provide visual connection, interest and recreation, whilst offering excellent respite from the immediate urban context.
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  Environmental and Engineering
  
  The primary design driver for the internal faces of the development was the creation of a crafted valley landscape, with a soft tiered edge and a sense of scale within the central zone. Imagery was inspired by the stepped landforms of rice paddy fields and the stone terraces of Machu Pichu.
  
  This concept informed the notion of a central courtyard space, and the facade treatment created by tiered and contoured forms. Horizontal concrete bands with a textured finish are evocative of stone terraces, creating a series of strata like levels, while green glass and external walls in a colour palatte of soft natural tones are drawn from a natural palette.
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  Urban Design Response
  
  The development has street frontages along three boundaries which require careful consideration. To contrast with the soft edge created within the central zones of the development, a hard edge was established around the perimeter to create a sense of protection and containment of the interior spaces. This hard edge is driven by a series of feature elements, which serve to visually break down the composition along the street edge and create a sense of identity and interest.The feature elements are crafted and angular, with a hard bluestone
  
  The feature elements are crafted and angular, with a hard bluestone outer edge. The scale of these forms varies in response to surrounding context, having larger elements within the Commercial Zone to Camberwell Road, medium-sized elements to Burwood Road and smaller scale elements which respond to adjacent residential dwellings along the Western Laneway. Perforated screens to residential terraces along the street front serve to create a sense of layering and provide privacy to terraces behind.
The site provides a unique opportunity to create connection. The site provides a unique opportunity to create a connection between Burwood and Camberwell Roads. A large central landscaped courtyard provides aspect from apartments and defines the pedestrian experience through the site. Ideas of movement and erosion inform the gently curved edges of the internal pedestrian areas.