A development application proposing the establishment of a 10-storey residential building in Adelaide’s CBD has been lodged with the South Australian Planning Commission.
Planning documents note the proposed building would occupy a 1,241-square-metre lot on Hutt Street. The building would accommodate 45 apartments – 15 percent of which are affordable housing – as well as a residential lobby and retail offerings at street level. A two-level basement car park is also included within the proposal.
Plans state that while building height in the proposed locality is predominantly low-rise, several buildings ranging from three to eight storeys are present in the area.
Designed by DKO, the building features a podium and tower massing, with setbacks that gradually increase on the upper levels. According to the application, the ground level and podium have been “designed to promote a human-scale” at both Hutt Street and Allan Place, through the use of fine-grain materials and active shop fronts.
The site is currently occupied by a two-storey office building, a single-storey building and a canopy structure formerly used as a service station. The lot sits adjacent to a row of eight two-storey terrace shops fronting Hutt Street, which are connected and listed collectively as a single State Heritage Place.
Dash Architects was engaged to prepare a Heritage Impact Assessment detailing how the project’s design responds to these neighbouring buildings. Their report concluded that careful scale and setbacks have ensured the proposal does “not dominate, encroach upon or unduly impact … the adjacent State Heritage Place.”
The project will target a 5-Star Green Star rating and a 7-Star NatHERS rating. According to the application, the building will be fully electric and will include 300 square metres of roof-mounted solar panels to help meet these targets.
The proposal is on exhibition until 15 September.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
