Insight

Currently the existing building turns it’s back to the heavy foot traffic along The Goods Line. Our solutions driven design team unlocked a new opportunity by making use of decommissioned kitchens and storage space that no longer served the hotel. Our exciting collaboration with UAP with creative detailing and a public artwork will breathe new life into the carpark façade and will tell a story about this historically rich location. This is further enhanced by a well-considered landscape design on the public domain for pedestrians to linger. In addition to the street scape, an oasis of a roof terrace floats above the diverse buildings in the Haymarket district. 

Solution

The proposed works will now give the hotel a second entry and direct access to The Goods Line as well as add a café/bar, which will provide both day and night activation. Efficiency has been incorporated into room layouts by providing standardised room types which make for a better functioning hotel both with guest service and building services. The new layout includes new high-demand family suites, and minimises the number of rooms facing the serviced apartments and student housing to the Eastern site boundary. Given the site’s highly trafficked area, access for construction will be limited. Due to this, we have designed a pre-fabricated façade for the new extension, in order to minimise the impact of a tower crane and decrease the amount of time the public domain is interrupted by construction.