In the geographic heart of Sydney, Australia, Melrose Park, is a major urban renewal project, taking shape just six kilometres from the CBD of Parramatta, Sydney’s oldest and second largest city.
The first stage of residential apartments, One Melrose, is currently nearing completion. Conceived as an urban oasis, on the banks of the Parramatta River. It consists of 277 smart homes across an enclave of three sinuously curved buildings, architecturally considered from every angle to harmonise with place.
Apartments at One Melrose seamlessly combine indoor/outdoor living with intelligent floorplans, generous storage and space for families, or busy couples and an enduring eye on the material finishes and fixtures.
When complete, Melrose Park will contribute a total of 6,000 new apartments to the estimated 100,000 new homes needed to grow Parramatta as the lifeblood of Western Sydney.
The project represents a new wave of planned urban communities, combining the amenities of great small cities – culture and transport, retail and recreational opportunities – with the liveability and public green space of attractive garden suburbs.
Melrose Park will be Parramatta’s first Smart City. That means more than just monitoring energy use in the home. Across the 30-hectare site, sensors are monitoring environmental conditions during construction and the data is fed back into the design loop, to help optimise building and landscape outcomes, as well as living conditions.
The project is a creative collaboration between place-makers PAYCE and Sekisui House, together with architects and master planners Allen Jack+Cottier (AJ+C) and landscape architects Turf Design Studio.
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Last year more than 40 countries took part in the WAN Awards with strong showings from Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. And we saw some truly outstanding projects, take a look at the winners from last year here.