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Nightingale 1, Victoria

Breathe Architecture

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Designer
Breathe Architecture
Client
Nightingale on Florence
Floor area
2539.90 ㎡
Completion
2017

The design strategy was to building more with less. Purchaser engagement from early stages allowed the building to be designed completely with the end user in mind.

Hand painted signage lead residents through a cobblestone entry, lined with a tapestry of recycled brickwork. A series of upholstered seating nooks and a semi public laneway work hard to activate the ground floor.

The lift lobbies are warm and inviting, lined in natural Blackbutt timber battens and mild steel plate. Inset coir matting nooks, signal entries to apartments. Apartments consists of a soft palette of waxed, recycled timber floors, off-form concrete ceilings and walls and carefully curated, exposed services.

Apartments are affordable, sustainable, generous and easy to live in. It is filled with great neighbours and good people.

The rooftop is again about community and is divided into two parts. The north is about the utility of living - a simple communal laundry, water tanks, pumps, potting shed, clothesline and productive garden plots. The south is about people coming together. Seating nooks nestled behind clusters of lush vegetation, an outdoor dining room and a rooftop lawn area for the Nightingale children to run and play.