Silk Apartments, Ascot Queensland
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Silk Apartments in Ascot Queensland
28 Jul 2021
Architecture: Loucas Zahos Architects
Location: Ascot, north-east suburb in City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Silk Apartments in Ascot
Silk builds on the strong heritage of community that is Racecourse Road Ascot.
Sited on a strategic corner site bound by Racecourse Road and Beatrice Terrace, the design explores vertical integration in what is a mixed-use development. Aligned with Racecourse Road, is retail and local office accommodation re-enforcing the linear axis of commercial development of the Street.
Racecourse Road at each intersection is flanked by high quality residential streets aligned on grid on an east west axis. Silk does this with the upper residential levels, accessed from Beatrice Terrace predominantly aligned which this street and having north aspect. The arrangement and circulation separate the uses and limit access to the residential areas.
The geometry of the building articulates the ground retail to the dominant ?residential mass? of building. The office space sited between these two elements, is recessed to provide a strong articulation in the above two dominant uses. Given that offices are passive spaces limited to 9-5 weekday operation, siting them here provides a passive separation for the benefit of the residential areas from the ground floor retail.
The building?s architecture celebrates the ...
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