Harbourside Villas and Boathouse

The client for the project requested a restrained, classical building of high quality for its prestigious Point Piper location. The site held several constraints that shaped the proposal, including complex title arrangements with neighbouring properties to overcome the limits of a 1m right of way pedestrian access to Wolseley Rd; vehicular access and parking being located in the adjacent property development, constructed simultaneously, that was accessed through a carlift and tunnel; the requirement of a tower crane with 55m reach for the ingress and egress of materials and debris to trucks on Wolseley Rd, and apartment levels being determined by adjacencies with the neighbouring parking to provide level access across the properties, and by the limits of a deviation of the sewer mains incorporated into the cross section of the building.

Our scope included the detailed design of all interiors. The palette transitions from a robust palette of concrete and sandstone at the waters edge, gradually becoming a more refined palette of oak and honed limestone on the upper levels more distanced from the water.