STUDIOS 54 / Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects

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Surry Hills, Australia
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Text description provided by the architects. This project poses a simple architectural question – what can one small shop and four apartments contribute to the life and vitality of the city?

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Studios 54 is located between a large residential development to the north and a heritage listed corner pub to the south. The building forms a transition between these two distinctive scales, acknowledging the tight urban grain with its small footprint, yet seamlessly matching the bolder height of its contemporary residential neighbour.

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Within a site area of approx. 126sqm, the project contains a commercial space on the street level, and four single floor apartments above. Each apartment is flexibly planned with a series of service pods on the southern facade that frame a long open plan space that runs from the front to the rear. This flexible plan arrangement offers a number of possibilities for occupation and would happily accommodate residential, home office and/or commercial uses. Each apartment achieves ample sunlight and ventilation, despite the heavily constrained urban context.

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As urban housing, this project explores the myriad ways that a diverse range of unknown future occupants can inflect and individualize interior space to make a home. This deliberately equivocal interior character is contrasted with a more playful and definitive architectural presence in the urban realm.

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The exterior of the building is formed from a palette of white materials with differing surface textures – comprising off-form concrete, textured rendered walls, matte ceramic tiles and glossy, vitrified panels. Against this plays a rich colour theme of red, blue, yellow and turquoise that celebrates the presence of individual occupancies through small scale details such as blinds, letterboxes and soffits.

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Floor Plan

The building is capped with a communal roof terrace – complete with planter beds that intermittently throw sprays of white flowers above the horizontal parapet line of the building.

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Address:Surry Hills NSW 2010, Australia

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Cite: "STUDIOS 54 / Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects " 27 May 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/634736/studios-54-hill-thalis-architecture-urban-projects> ISSN 0719-8884

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