VIEW Rockdale, New South Wales Apartments, Sydney Real Estate Building, NSW Interior Photos, Australian Architecture
VIEW Rockdale in Sydney
9 Apr 2021
VIEW Rockdale Apartments
Design: Fuse Architecture
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

VIEW was conceived through a design excellence competition for a mixed use tower within the Sydney suburbian town centre of Rockdale. It aimed to encapsulate and extend the vibrant character of the existing lowscale stock and present in an iconic form, the ambitions of its future character.

As a studio, Fuse Architecture sought to explore the latent potential for innovation in multiple dwelling housing, to provide homes that were economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable and provide an appropriate gateway building into an aspirational town centre.
On a compromised site, sandwiched between a busy arterial road, a railway line, and directly under a flight path, the technical considerations though complex, were skilfully curated, transforming inherent constraints into poetic design solutions that helped deliver a sophisticated, confident and beautiful scheme without artistic compromise.

The requirement for design excellence was used as an opportunity to challenge from first principles the projects ambitions, planning controls, technical considerations and tectonics, to ultimately maximise its impact. The scheme distilled into a contextual framework the delivery of what is Rockdale?s first design excellence buildin...