PARKLIFE | Austin Maynard Architects

Located in Brunswick and set within the Nightingale Village - Australia’s first carbon neutral residential precinct - ParkLife is a high-performing, beautifully designed, community-focused apartment building containing 37 homes and two commercial tenancies.

Regarded as the social hub of the village, ParkLife has a distinctive mountainous roofline and a unique rooftop amphitheatre, as well as a variety of social/communal areas, diverse in scale, location and character. Homes within comprise of 14 one-bedroom, 19 two-bedroom, 2 three-bedroom and 2 Teilhaus apartments, each designed to extol space-efficiency, functionality and flexibility. Five of the apartments are designated social housing, through Housing Choices Australia.

Excelling within the industry code for sustainability, ParkLife has an average NatHERS rating of 9.1 stars, making it the most sustainable building at The Village.

IT TAKES A VILLAGE
The precinct is a project of international significance. Six buildings, each designed by a local award-winning architecture firm, with social, environmental, ethical and sustainability principles at the core. Facing out to Bulleke-Bek Park, Austin Maynard Architect’s ParkLife makes up half of the northside of The Village, with Claire Cousins Architect’s Evergreen to the west. Designing our buildings concurrently allowed for a wonderful opportunity to collaborate as neighbours to create a number of special outcomes, including reciprocating light wells. By adjoining our light wells we were able to the double the space, which allowed for double the garden at ground level and double the amount of natural light streaming in through the core.

Throughout the precinct, communication with all the architects of the village, was a constant. With shared enthusiasm and intent this co-ordinated approach led to a consistent grouping of individual buildings, all conversing but each with different personalities and a divergent set of homes within.

Project Managers
Fontic

Engineers

Structural & Civil - Irwin Consult
Mechanical Engineer - Irwin Consult
Electrical Engineer - Irwin Consult
Hydraulic Engineer - Irwin Consult
Fire Services Engineer - Irwin Consult
Fire Safety Engineer - Irwin Consult
Acoustic Engineer - Arup

ESD
Irwin Consult

Traffic Consultant
GTA Consultants

Planning consultant
Hansen

Access Consultant
Access Studio

Landscape Architects
Openwork

Waste Consultant
Leigh Design

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