MARLAY FIELDS
Typology Residential
Units 74
Population 370
Density 26.1/ha
Plot Ratio 0.68
GDA 8,405 m2
Value 16.6 m
Client Private
Marlay Field retains and enhances the landscape setting by opening large portions of parkland to public access and by its sensitive placing offers supervision to parkland setting currently unavailable as an amenity for the wider community. The existing topography has a modest level differential for its scale, allowing for simple access for all arrangements to be provided for throughout. Clear routes and zones are established for both residents and public. Landscaped areas are arranged amongst existing arbocultural environments in a way to promote a sense of natural amenity and give the scheme a distinctive parkland setting. Buildings and their configurations have been arranged to renew and set up new desire lines within these formerly active routes.
All buildings have an oversized systems room at the ground floor to allow for the possibility of future modification to systems and services as technology continually evolves. Currently all units are designed to fully NZEB compliance with high levels of insulation, air tightness and renewables sources proposed. The structural system avoids load bearing walls and is composed entirely of a column and beam system in either concrete or steel depending on implementation market conditions. This allows for the potential of future adaptability / reconfiguration to larger units if the future demand.
Traditional galvanised corrugated powder coated sheet panels are used as a main defined element to the materiality across the scheme. The use of a dark pallet of colours in the parkland area intends to reduce the visual impact while allowing the tree and vegetation colours more prominence. This identifying feature offers the scheme a distinctive and identifiable place making quality for the new community. Materials to landscape elements offer residents a natural and integrated mixture of soft amenity areas with harder spaces provided in more trafficked areas. Parking is set out to compliment the landscape strategy where mature trees break up rows where it is possible.
