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Campbell Housing Apartments) Australian Capital Territory Heritage (Decision about Registration for Campbell Housing Apartments). Notice 2011 Notifiable Instrument NI 2011 - 742 made under the Heritage Act 2004 section 42 Notice of Decision about Registration 1. Revocation This instrument replaces NI 2011 – 489 2. Name of instrument This instrument is the Heritage (Decision about Registration for Campbell Housing Apartments) Notice 2011 - 3. Registration details of the place Registration details of the place are at Attachment A: Register entry for Campbell Housing Apartments . 4. Reason for decision The ACT Heritage Council has decided that the Campbell Housing Apartments meets one or more of the heritage significance criteria at s 10 of the Heritage Act 2004. The register entry is at Attachment A. 5. Date of Registration 1 December 2011 Gerhard Zatschler Secretary ACT Heritage Council 1 December 2011 Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY HERITAGE REGISTER (Registration Details) Place No: For the purposes of s. 41 of the Heritage Act 2004, an entry to the heritage register has been prepared by the ACT Heritage Council for the following place: Campbell Housing Apartments, 6 & 8 Edmondson Street Campbell (Part) Block 15 Section 9 Campbell DATE OF REGISTRATION Notified: 1 December 2011 Notifiable Instrument: 2011/ Copies of the Register Entry are available for inspection at the ACT Heritage Unit. For further information please contact: The Secretary ACT Heritage Council GPO Box 158, Canberra, ACT 2601 Telephone: 13 22 81 Facsimile: (02) 6207 2229 IDENTIFICATION OF THE PLACE Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au Campbell Housing Apartments (Blamey Heights), 6 and 8 Edmondson Street, Campbell (Part) Block 15, Section 9, Campbell, Canberra Central STATEMENT OF HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE This statement refers to the Heritage Significance of the place as required in s12(d) of the Heritage Act 2004. The Campbell Housing Apartments are of heritage significance as a notable example of a residential apartment complex, designed by Harry Seidler and based on the 1950s European housing projects by the famous pioneer of the Modern Movement, Le Corbusier. The apartments are important for their planning layout which includes an internal central corridor providing access to split-level apartments. The housing is the only known example in Canberra of an apartment complex with such a planning layout, where the central internal corridor provides access to two levels of accommodation combining with split-level planning to allow the individual apartments to extend the full depth of the building. This planning approach was specifically devised to provide views from each side of the apartment and to facilitate cross-flow ventilation for natural passive climate control. FEATURES INTRINSIC TO THE HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PLACE The attributes listed below are assessed as features intrinsic to the heritage significance of the place and warrant conservation: The building, including Central internal corridor Split level planning intended to enable: o the individual apartments to extend the full depth of the building, o cross-ventilation, and o front and rear windows of the apartments. APPLICABLE HERITAGE GUIDELINES The ‘Heritage Guidelines: General Conservation Guidelines for Historic Heritage Places 2011’ adopted under s25 of the Heritage Act 2004 are applicable to the conservation of Campbell Housing Apartments. The guiding conservation objective is that Campbell Housing Apartments, Edmondson Street, Campbell, shall be conserved and appropriately managed in a manner respecting its heritage significance and the features intrinsic to that heritage significance, and consistent with a sympathetic and viable use or uses. Any works that have a potential impact on significant fabric (and / or other heritage values) shall be guided by a professionally documented assessment and conservation policy relevant to that area or component (i.e. a Statement of Heritage Effects – SHE). REASON FOR REGISTRATION Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au Campbell Housing Apartments, Campbell has been assessed against the heritage significance criteria and been found to have heritage significance when assessed against two criteria under the ACT Heritage Act: (f) it is a rare or unique example of its kind, or is rare or unique in its comparative intactness (g) it is a notable example of a kind of place or object and demonstrates the main characteristics of that kind ASSESSMENT AGAINST THE HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE CRITERIA Pursuant to s.10 of the Heritage Act 2004, a place or object has heritage significance if it satisfies one or more of the following criteria. Significance has been determined by research as accessed in the references below. Future research may alter the findings of this assessment. (a) it demonstrates a high degree of technical or creative achievement (or both), by showing qualities of innovation, discovery, invention or an exceptionally fine level of application of existing techniques or approaches; The Campbell Housing does not meet this criterion. (b) it exhibits outstanding design or aesthetic qualities valued by the community or a cultural group; There is no evidence to suggest that any design or aesthetic qualities of the Campbell Housing are valued by the community or a cultural group. The Campbell Housing does not meet this criterion. (c) it is important as evidence of a distinctive way of life, taste, tradition, religion, land use, custom, process, design or function that is no longer practised, is in danger of being lost or is of exceptional interest; Campbell Housing does not meet this criterion. (d) it is highly valued by the community or a cultural group for reasons of strong or special religious, spiritual, cultural, educational or social associations; The Campbell Housing does not meet this criterion. (e) it is significant to the ACT because of its importance as part of local Aboriginal tradition The Campbell Housing does not meet this criterion. (f) it is a rare or unique example of its kind, or is rare or unique in its comparative intactness The Campbell Housing Apartments demonstrate a unique aspect of residential housing apartments within the ACT, being the only residential apartments in the ACT to have a central internal corridor leading to split-level apartments, to allow the individual apartments to extend the full depth of the building; a planning approach specifically devised to provide views from each side of the apartment and to facilitate cross-flow ventilation for natural passive climate control. The Campbell Housing Apartments meet this criterion. Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au (g) it is a notable example of a kind of place or object and demonstrates the main characteristics of that kind Harry Seidler’s design for the Campbell Housing Apartments provides a notable example of residential housing apartments within the ACT. The main characteristics of this kind of place, demonstrated in the apartment complex, include a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building, and contains a kitchen, bathroom, bed rooms and a living room. Based on Le Corbusier’s 1950s housing projects in Europe, Seidler’s design of the apartment complex where the central internal corridor located at the upper middle level provides access to the split-level apartments, demonstrating a novel planning approach to the internal layout of the apartments. The housing is the only known example in Canberra of an apartment complex where the central internal corridor provides access to two levels of accommodation combining with split- level planning to allow the individual apartments to extend the full depth of the building; a planning approach specifically devised to provide views from each side of the apartment and to facilitate cross-flow ventilation for natural passive climate control. The Campbell Housing Apartments meet this criterion. (h) it has strong or special associations with a person, group, event, development or cultural phase in local or national history An architect has an association with any design or plan on which he has worked. A strong or special association would require that the association is beyond the ordinary, and that there is something which differentiates it from other similar places and objects associated with the architect. There is nothing particularly strong or special about the relationship between the Campbell Housing and its architect, Harry Seidler which sets this association apart from other buildings in the ACT designed by Seidler. It is one of eight buildings in the ACT designed by Seidler, and is not one of the best examples of his work, nor an example for which he is best known. The Edmund Barton Offices (Trade Group Office) is commonly known as Seidler’s best work in the ACT, demonstrating aspects of late-twentieth century International style of architecture. The Campbell Housing does not meet this criterion. (i) it is significant for understanding the evolution of natural landscapes, including significant geological features, landforms, biota or natural processes The Campbell Housing does not meet this criterion. (j) it has provided, or is likely to provide, information that will contribute significantly to a wider understanding of the natural or cultural history of the ACT because of its use or potential use as a research site or object, teaching site or object, type locality or benchmark site The Campbell Housing does not meet this criterion. (k) for a place—it exhibits unusual richness, diversity or significant transitions of flora, fauna or natural landscapes and their elements The Campbell Housing does not meet this criterion. Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au (l) for a place—it is a significant ecological community, habitat or locality for any of the following: (i) the life cycle of native species; (ii) rare, threatened or uncommon species; (iii) species at the limits of their natural range; (iv) distinct occurrences of species.
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