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BKK Architects Geelong Ring Road Rest Areas Clare Design Burleigh Heads Granny Flat in Profile: NG Sek San Editorial Editorial ISSUE 120 Welcome to Steel Profile 120 L TION A A 2015 RCHITECTUR A STEEL INNOV WITH BLUESCOPE MAY MAY STEEL 120 BKK ARCHITECTS GEELONG RING ROAD REST AREAS CLARE DESIGN BURLEIGH HEADS GRANNY FLAT IN PROFILE: NG SEK SAN EDITORIAL EDITORIAL ISSUE 120 Welcome to Steel Profile 120. ADVISORY CONTENTS We are, as always, proud to bring our readers a collection of some of the finest steel paNEL buildings in this country (and beyond) and Steel Profile has an Editorial Advisory glimpses into the talented, creative people responsible for them. Panel to ensure that only projects of the highest calibre are selected for publication. BlueScope has an especially strong The panellists are: connection to one of the projects featured in this issue, having fast-tracked the development of Low-Glare Coated DECKFORM® steel so it could be used for the first time in the expansion of the Wollongong Central shopping centre, which was designed by a locally born-and-bred architect. 4 12 18 22 A distinctive shroud of blades adorns the BKK Architects’ playful yet This house by Misho + Ng Sek San’s projects push HDR Rice Daubney building’s facade, offering an obvious reminder practical design for rest areas Associates with its bold steel the boundaries of architecture, conceptualised the facade that this is a steel building; an amenity made on the Geelong Ring Road pays framing and colourful screens landscape and social change, of this Wollongong shopping for the Illawarra community from a material homage to medieval spires and seems to both stand out and combining buildings and landscape centre as a series of craggy, clock towers while performing blend into rolling Tasmanian in an unorthodox yet seamless jagged forms evoking the produced by people who work in the nearby ADAM HADDOW Port Kembla Steelworks. the important civic duty of farmland union, and reflecting the essence iconic escarpment that runs Adam is a director of SJB Architects NSW. combatting fatigue of his country and people above the city A story and video of the project also can be He was awarded the 40th Anniversary found via steel.com.au/steelprofile Churchill Fellowship in 2006 to study alternatives to conventional models of We trust you will enjoy our print and online urban design. SJB Architects recently coverage. Please feel free to share your won two Australian Institute of Architects NSW Awards for Multiple Housing. thoughts with us via [email protected] More than anything, he loves to design buildings Scott Gregory BlueScope editor 28 34 42 A modern take on old-fashioned Woods Bagot has expertly spun a Welsh + Major play on ideas hospitality, Clare Design’s luminous, complex web of steel, aluminium of lightness and solidity with steel-clad pavilion is informed by a sunshades and mesh to create customised, highly refined steel FRANK STANISIC passion for considered shape and an iconic medical research cassettes that have transformed space, and bears a direct vocabulary facility for Adelaide a heritage police station Stanisic Associates founder Frank Stanisic is a Sydney-based architect and urbanist. of streamlined materials His work is fuelled by an evolving interest in the diagram and frame as a basis for architectural invention, and the aesthetics of permeability. Principal Corporate Partner Frank’s projects have won numerous awards including Australian Institute of Architects’ Special Jury, Wilkinson, Aaron Bolot and Frederick Romberg prizes NUMBER 120, MAY 2015 BLUESCOPE EDITOR Scott Gregory MANAGING EDITOR Rob Gillam ASSOCIATE EDITOR Rachael Bernstone CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Rachael Bernstone, Rob Gillam, Peter Hyatt, Paul McGillick, Micky Pinkerton, Alex Taylor CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Brett Boardman, Paul Bradshaw, Peter Clarke, John Gollings, Peter Hyatt, Trevor Mein, Charles Pertwee, Peter Whyte ART DIRECTOR Natasha Krncevic PROJECT SUBMISSIONS To submit your project for consideration please visit steelprofile.com.au SUBSCRIPTIONS For all subscription enquiries please contact us via [email protected] EMAIL [email protected]; [email protected] CORRESPONDENCE Steel Profile, PO Box 961, Crows Nest, NSW 1585, AUSTRALIA BlueScope recommends the use of COLORBOND® steel or ZINCALUME® steel for the majority of external cladding applications. For technical advice on the right product to use contact your BlueScope representative. BlueScope recommends routine preventative JAMES LODER maintenance for eaves and other “unwashed areas” of structures which may not be regularly cleaned by rainfall. For further information please contact your nearest BlueScope office or consult steel.com.au James Loder is a graduate architect working at ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® John Wardle Architects. Graduating from RMIT COVER PROJECT BlueScope, COLORBOND , ZINCALUME , LYSAGHT , CUSTOM ORB , XLERPLATE , XLERPLATE LITE , DECKFORM , GALVASPAN , ® ® with a Master of Architecture (First Class Honours) Geelong Ring Road Rest Areas SPANDEK , Coolmax and ® colour names are registered trademarks and ™ colour names are trademarks of BlueScope Steel Limited. KingKlip® and KingFlor® are registered trademarks of Fielders Australia Pty Ltd. in 2012, James was awarded the 2013 BlueScope PHOTOGRapHER Steel Glenn Murcutt Student Prize. John Gollings Copyright © BlueScope Steel Limited ABN 16 000 011 058. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced or distributed without His work explores the formal relationships between consent. BlueScope Steel Limited, to the extent permissible at law, is not liable to any person for loss or damage arising from reliance AN building and landscape with great consideration upon information contained in this publication. The views expressed in this magazine are those of the authors and do not necessarily M D R given to spatial expression and materiality reflect those of BlueScope Steel Limited SP120 architectural steel innovation 3 ETT BOA R B JG Equally adept at designing tall residential towers, civic masterplans and commercial buildings, BKK Architects has also established a reputation as preferred architects for roadside rest areas. Its latest project on the Geelong Ring Road is a beacon for drivers who need a break. Words Alex Taylor Photography John Gollings; Paul Bradshaw ARCHITECT BKK Architects PROJECT Geelong Ring Road Rest Areas LOCATION Waurn Ponds, Victoria 4 steel.com.au/steelprofile SP120 architectural steel innovation 5 JG hen I first saw images of these tiny toilet of road crashes involving heavy vehicles”, Kosloff sees great value in these typically small-scale blocks beside a new freeway, I was according to VicRoads, it is committed to buildings, which he says are important elements Wimmediately struck by their resemblance providing highly visible, appealing and enjoyable within the freeway landscape. “The potential for to Le Corbusier’s famous architectural mecca: the places for drivers, especially truck drivers, good design to directly improve road safety validates Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamp in to stop and rest. VicRoads’ investment in these projects,” he says. France. Architect and BKK director Julian Kosloff From an architectural point of view they can be says that it’s “one of several civic references that BKK Architects won acclaim and awards for its challenging and thought-provoking, too. “VicRoads have informed this project”. first project of this type, the Calder-Woodburn is committed to the design process and interested in Rest Area near Shepparton, completed in 2008 the way in which architectural ideas can enhance BKK’s client, VicRoads, is a world leader in efforts (see Steel Profile 104). In 2010 the firm won a the unusual space that is the freeway,” Kosloff says. to reduce deaths and injuries on the state’s roads. limited competition to design new rest facilities “In addition the simple, utilitarian program of these In 2013 the state government launched Road Safety on both sides of the Geelong Ring Road, a buildings opens the opportunity for expressive form Strategy 2013-2022, developed in partnership by $235 million freeway bypass completed in 2013. and almost limitless expression.” æ VicRoads, the Transport Accident Commission (TAC), Victoria Police and the Department of Justice, with the aim of reducing fatalities and serious injuries by more than 30 per cent by 2022*. One of the key areas of concern identified in “The reference to the chapel at Ronchamp was the strategy is driver fatigue, which is estimated to play a role in 20 per cent of all crashes NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN REST AREA ELEVATIONS a tongue-in-cheek way of posing the question: and 60 per cent of truck crashes*. Because fatigue is “the single most significant cause ‘Can these structures be important civic buildings?’” There are two identical rest areas on either side of the new Geelong Ring Road at Waurn Ponds: this one is on the northbound side 6 steel.com.au/steelprofile SP120 architectural steel innovation 7 PB The roof and covered breezeway read like Come closer and the buildings unfold as a series butterfly wings, with skylight openings of intriguing and tactile forms. The rest areas forming the ‘markings’ on the ‘wings’ themselves were framed using structural steel, BELOW: The men’s (blue) and women’s a combination of rectangular and angle sections (tangerine) restrooms are naturally lit that create the impression that the men’s and and ventilated from above by skylights women’s toilet blocks are leaning on each other. and skytowers “It’s almost impossible to achieve that effect with precast concrete alone, so the precast and steel are fundamentally linked
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