The Brewery at No.5 Central Park Avenue - Sydney
The Brewery at No.5 Central Park Avenue is in the centre of the Sydney Innovation and Technology Precinct. The largest in Australia, it will be home to tech giants and leading start-ups who will be joining some of Sydney’s best universities and hospitals.
As the vision of the innovation and technology precinct evolves, The Brewery will provide a key hub for knowledge work. The six floors of commercial workspace will be complemented by incredible ground floor of retail and hospitality.
CHIPPENDALE, AUSTRALIA
•Architects: TZANNES
•Area: 26400 m²
Text description provided by the architects. This project integrates the plant equipment for a tri-generation plant with the historic Carlton and United Brewery building on the fringe of the
Sydney CBD. The Brewery precinct, which dates from the early twentieth century, is located in the centre of this six hectare site, now known as Central Park.
It is the largest group of retained heritage buildings on site and will provide the most direct representation of the Brewery which existed on the site until 2005. The built form of the project needed to provide a memorable expression of this important new technology within the urban context while also meeting the demanding technical requirements of the cooling towers and enhancing the heritage significance of the buildings.
We developed an innovative formal solution to this problem where the
form of the new work arose from the integration of complex profile of the existing roofline with the organic regular form of the plant equipment within. The transparency of the mesh was minimised, enhancing the solidity of the form while providing permeability for the cooling towers which need large volumes of air intake. This form was wrapped in custom made zinc mesh sheets, like fabric draped over a curved frame.
Fittingly, the new plant room hovers over the former Old Boiler House, the original power station for the site which operated in various formats until it was decommissioned in the 1980s. The original inverted pyramid coal hoppers are retained in situ within the new zinc clad enclosure and informed the volume of the base of the structure. We have extended the detailing tradition of buildings on this site. The detailing generally was intended to be direct, utilitarian and industrial this can be seen in the close up details of the steel.
Within the building supporting the cooling towers, steel bolts and plate connections for the new steel work are clearly expressed as these will be visible in the final iteration of the adaptive re-use of the building. The new slab housing the cooling towers is supported by industrial scaled steel portal frames - the beam of the portal frame is 1.2m deep and spans over twenty metres.
The Brewery at No.5 Central Park Avenue - Sydney
The Brewery at No.5 Central Park Avenue is in the centre of the Sydney Innovation and Technology Precinct. The largest in Australia, it will be home to tech giants and leading start-ups who will be joining some of Sydney’s best universities and hospitals.
As the vision of the innovation and technology precinct evolves, The Brewery will provide a key hub for knowledge work. The six floors of commercial workspace will be complemented by incredible ground floor of retail and hospitality.
CHIPPENDALE, AUSTRALIA
•Architects: TZANNES
•Area: 26400 m²
Text description provided by the architects. This project integrates the plant equipment for a tri-generation plant with the historic Carlton and United Brewery building on the fringe of the
Sydney CBD. The Brewery precinct, which dates from the early twentieth century, is located in the centre of this six hectare site, now known as Central Park.
It is the largest group of retained heritage buildings on site and will provide the most direct representation of the Brewery which existed on the site until 2005. The built form of the project needed to provide a memorable expression of this important new technology within the urban context while also meeting the demanding technical requirements of the cooling towers and enhancing the heritage significance of the buildings.
We developed an innovative formal solution to this problem where the
form of the new work arose from the integration of complex profile of the existing roofline with the organic regular form of the plant equipment within. The transparency of the mesh was minimised, enhancing the solidity of the form while providing permeability for the cooling towers which need large volumes of air intake. This form was wrapped in custom made zinc mesh sheets, like fabric draped over a curved frame.
Fittingly, the new plant room hovers over the former Old Boiler House, the original power station for the site which operated in various formats until it was decommissioned in the 1980s. The original inverted pyramid coal hoppers are retained in situ within the new zinc clad enclosure and informed the volume of the base of the structure. We have extended the detailing tradition of buildings on this site. The detailing generally was intended to be direct, utilitarian and industrial this can be seen in the close up details of the steel.
Within the building supporting the cooling towers, steel bolts and plate connections for the new steel work are clearly expressed as these will be visible in the final iteration of the adaptive re-use of the building. The new slab housing the cooling towers is supported by industrial scaled steel portal frames - the beam of the portal frame is 1.2m deep and spans over twenty metres.