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Inspiration:• Historical MED buildings on site to be retained;• The recreational, amenity, ecological and cultural values of the Avon corridor; and• The historic and cultural values of Latimer Square.
Reconnect Avon to Latimer Square
Orion Site – Manchester – Armagh Street
Key Drivers:• Heritage buildings on site to be strengthened (to 67% of code). • RECONNECT the power company link to MED building.• RECONNECT with Avon corridor through Elsie Locke Park (Centennial Pool buildings due for demolition) giving connection with waters edge (punt station relocated). • Active frontage to buildings facing Armagh Street., enhancing existing street trees and landscaping.• Visual and physical link through to Latimer Square.• Transition zone between City core and residential east quarters of the City.• Transport links, - Walking and cycling networks., links to public bus network.• Creating a high amenity urban public space, and sustainable built form.
View along Manchester toward Avon corridor and Edmond Rotunda
Former MED Building to remain (1937 Art Deco), Manchester Street
Existing Car park Building (to be demolished)
Former MED Building to remain (1932 Art Deco), Armagh Street
View toward site from Avon corridor
Centre of site (demolished building)
Neighbouring Context (East)
Neighbouring Context (North)
Relevant site pictures -
View One – landscaped corridor linking Manchester Street with green space
View Two – New building linking to existing MED building via glazed link
Reconnect 3D Views
Access to ‘green space’ above carparking
Link between new ‘Orion’ office and existing MED building (to house Orion corporate)
Use of laneway to link the different open spaces
Architectural linkage between new and old. Scale continues from existing MED building
Vertical fins directing views from the tenancies towards the Avon corridor (existign Band Rotunda
Vertical fins become public artwork with the use of ‘morse code’ to spell ‘Orion – Your Network’ across the facade.
Voids in the facade create light wells and open space at street level
Reconnect Street sections
ARMAGH STREET
GLOUCESTER STREET
OXFORD TERRACE
NEW ORION BUILDING
RETAINED MED BUILDINGS
AVON RIVER8m
8m
Reconnect Streetscape plan
MANCHESTER STREET
18
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Widened footpaths
Bus stop along proposed public transport corridor
Glass link to give access through tenancies with detracting from the historical form of the MED building
District Building Services for heating, cooling, rainwater harvesting and stormwater disposal reticulated to all buildings via underground service ducts.
Stormwater collection and disposal via bugger tank, soakpits/swales along stormwater channel for eventual filtration and disposal to Avon.
Section through office building demonstrating natural ventilation concept via opening louvres and buffer facade to create cross ventilation across office space, supplemented by mechanical ventilation during Winter months.
Rainwater harvesting system from roof of Office building (example only) to feed local water fixtures and site wide irrigation system with overflow to stormwater system. Envisaged that all buildings would connect to this system.
Reconnect Pillars of Sustainabilty
Reconnect Design journey
A new urban space
Former waterway recreated to enhance the open space
Linking Latimer Square and the Avon River corridor
Reconnect Design journey
Slowing /calming of the transportation around the newly formed public spaces
Creating a residential and business interface across the site encouraging the newly formed open space to form a CBD edge
Existing Orion transformer building to be treated with natural materials sympathetic to the natural environment it now borders. This is to be in keeping with the form of the office building that borders the carpark
Reconnect Design journey
Swimming Pool complex moves away from the river edge to create the open towards Avon corridor
Facade shape of swimming pool complex to lead people past and into the banks of the ‘rain garden’ open space
The glazed end of the building links the site back through to Latimer Square as well as creating a focal point for some street art
The complex includes such uses as gym and related services giving the occupants of the site (residential and commercial) the amenity they require
As a stand alone structure the complex is able to be Avant Garde in its form
Services for both residential and commercial helps create the interface between the ‘zones’