New South Wales
Ohana, with its 67 apartments, provides nine different floor plan types with one in four apartments being Adaptable. Each dwelling addresses either Beach Road or Herarde Street via large functional balconies that facilitate the coastal lifestyle. The building steps in plan as it relates to Beach Rd and the building both steps and is angled to Herarde Street to both orient toward water views and to create strong architectural rhythms. Apartments are accessed via elevated walkways, sometimes bridging between building massing, there are integrated planters, framed voids and expressed vertical circulation in the form of lift cores and external stairs. This strategy creates a rich architecture on what could be considered a back elevation and supports cross ventilation for secondary bedroom and living spaces, passive surveillance and enhances opportunities for social interaction.
Ohana represented the injection of a sophisticated apartment community into a tired context, and has lead to a re-imagining of the opportunities offered by the coastal town of Batemans Bay. We were able to provide 1,2 & 3 bedroom apartments; a sub penthouse inclusive of 2-beds over 2-storeys and the remarkable 4-bedroom penthouse.
Architecturally, JUDD.studio combined a contemporary coastal character with a vision to enhance the local context; referencing the adjacent breakwall in the buildings base, grounding Ohana in its coastal landscape through variations in the buildings height, undulating and articulated facades, and clear linear fluctuation across the facade.
The Australian Institute of Architects acknowledges First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters, and skies of the continent now called Australia.
We express our gratitude to their Elders and Knowledge Holders whose wisdom, actions and knowledge have kept culture alive.
We recognise First Nations peoples as the first architects and builders. We appreciate their continuing work on Country from pre-invasion times to contemporary First Nations architects, and respect their rights to continue to care for Country.
