| Location | Campbell Avenue, The Entrance, NSW |
| Type | New build, multi-dwelling residential development (providing 10 new homes) |
| Size | 534m2 |
| Status | DA Approved |
Description
This multi-dwelling, residential development is located in the Central Coast region of NSW approximately 100km north of Sydney. Named after a channel to a nearby lake, The Entrance enjoys a picturesque setting on the southern shore of The Entrance Channel, with Tuggerah Lake to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east. The area has been a holiday destination since the late 19th Century and continues to be popular for residents, holiday makers and day trippers. This has led to an increasing demand for residential accommodation, both for purchase and rental.
Located within a Medium Density Zone, the site sits between a local commercial area to the east and residential area to the west, the latter typified by weatherboard cottages found throughout the area. The proposals seek to mediate between these two typologies, whilst contributing to the emerging character of the area, providing an appropriately scaled, high-quality, multi-dwelling development.
The design establishes a series of key datums to negotiate the sloping site, which sees accommodation step down from front to rear, and utilises the 2m drop to provide under croft parking, surrounded by greenery and planting on three sides. Above, elevated terraces and gardens that serve the new residential accommodation incorporate further dense planting, the extent and vibrancy of which is integral to the overall design.
Set against this lush planting, the deliberately crisp and considered architecture reinterprets the existing materiality within the area. Weatherboard cladding is used, but in a variety of orientations and scales, further enhancing key datums, articulating building facades and providing a suitably domestic scale to those areas that residents will interact with.
Whilst a ‘white’ palette, typical of the coastal location is generally adopted, a single colour is carefully applied, picking out architectural features to each of the new townhouses and complimenting the verdant planting throughout.
