Dharawal
New South Wales
How does a responsible architect interpret a brief for a carpark in the twenty first century? We think about the structure’s life and future beyond carbon and cars. The Campbelltown Station Commuter Car Park is conceived as an Adaptable Mobility Hub. It developed as hypothesis about what was needed to maximise choices into the future.
Accordingly – we proposed a light and airy courtyard carpark. Access ramps between floors are configured cleanly within a central landscaped courtyard, allowing the structure to be readily adapted for commercial, cultural or residential uses, responding to and promoting future flexibility in the urban environment. The hostile asphalt fringe was replaced by native planting and connective footpaths.
The building stands as a work of public architecture; well made, open and accessible, a confident statement for the future transformation of the west side of Campbelltown.
Philip Thalis, Design Architect
Brett Sperling, Project Architect
Aaron Murray, Graduate of Architecture
Sarah Hill, Specification
SDA, Structural Engineer
Civic Assessments, Town Planner
O & S Consulting, Services Consultant
Traffix, Traffic Consultant
Northrop, Civil Consultant
Flux Consulting, ESD Consultant
Bluesky Design, Way Finding Consultant
Credwell, NCC consultant, Access Consultant, Fire Consultant
EcoLogical, Ecology Consultant
Altus, Quantity Surveyor
Altus, Project Management
Douglas Partners, Contamination Consultant