Description:
Rehabilitation and conversion of the existing riverside warehouse to provide 60 flats, 20 workshop studios, office, restaurant, swimming pool, underground parking and new jetty. The brief was to repair the existing fabric and convert and extend the buildings while maintaining the inherent character. Important internal elements, primarily the exposed iron and timber structure and the original stock brickwork was where possible to be kept visible. Public spaces were formed in the original courtyard and new spaces created by the formation of a new courtyard of the northern end of the site and by the construction of a new jetty and brow built of traditional greenheart timber. A great deal of importance was given to respecting the existing fabric and to the choice of new materials and the manner in witch they were employed.