The site of the former Perth Girls School in East Perth is set to become a vertical residential community, under plans to redevelop the site submitted to Development WA.
The precinct designed by MJA Studio and Nic Brunsdon will see more than 700 residential dwellings across four towers including 500 build-to-rent apartment, 242 build-to-sell apartments and 100 affordable housing units.
The project will also see the former Perth Girls School buildings converted into office spaces for creative industries, restaurants and cafes, art gallery spaces, and a yoga studio in the turret.
A microbrewery and forecourt designed by Cast Studio (formerly David Barr Architects) and Benson Studio will also be created on the site.
The precinct will also include two park, each connecting to adjacent existing public parks. Mala Studio is the landscape architect for the project.
The site is bisected by an existing road – Bronte Street, with two 25-storey towers housing build-to-sell apartments on the south site, which also contains the former Perth Girls School buildings.
The redevelopment of the former Perth Girls’ School site designed by MJA Studio and Nic Brunsdon.
“Designed as two ‘siblings’, rather than twins, both build-to-sell towers share common traits and mannerisms that help reflect the symmetry of PGS and it’s vertical rhythms,” the architects said in a design statement. “A palette of colours are considerately integrated between both the towers and the PGS, reflects existing colours found within the heritage buildings.”
Two towers housing build-to-rent apartments, 15 and 37 storeys respectively will be built on the north site.
The 15-storey build-to-rent tower to the north will be a breezeway typology, “conceived as a heavy limestone block, with a cleave through its centre, creating a dark, verdant, and lush environment,” the architects said. “It is a space for vertical and horizontal circulation, encouraging incidental interactions and pedestrian movement between floors. It is seen as counter to the hard, and ordered building edges, a more private and cool space bringing small increments of domestic living into this semi-public space.”
The redevelopment of the former Perth Girls’ School site designed by MJA Studio and Nic Brunsdon.
The facade design of the taller build-to-rent tower will be an inversion of the southern towers. A supermarket will be semi-underground beneath the proposed park on the north site.
The two northern towers will be connected by a podium housing a “mobility hub,” which is currently proposed to contain 400 car parks over three levels owing to Perth’s car dependency, however, the spaces are designed to be adaptable and can be converted in the future into apartments, flexible working spaces, or indoor urban agriculture.
The project will be developed by Australian Development Capital with Assemble and Housing Choices Australia to deliver the build-to-rent and affordable housing.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
