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POWERHOUSE PRECINCT AT PARRAMATTA

Paramatta, Australia 2019

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PROGRAM: 7 main presentation spaces, forum space, River Square and landscaped grounds, digital labs, multifunction workshop spaces, co-working facilities, researcher artist apartments, museum shop, cafes and restaurant
CLIENT: Powerhouse Museum
    SIZE: 29,500 M2
STATUS: competition

The new structure is an anthropological vessel “Touching the Earth Lightly” (an aboriginal dictum). Our aim for state-of-the-art technology and maximum flexibility with vast interior spaces of exposed structure and circulation has an outer case in hexagonal glass tiles (solar PV). The red-orange tiles are small enough to conform to the curving mass and gradually change color to light blue above the plaza. The main exhibition hall of 3000 m2 floats above an open public riverfront plaza. A great public space and a gift to the city and community, this plaza is proposed to be paved in earthen tiles via an original aboriginal design. The tower form is tilted at 23 ½ degrees, the tilt of the earth’s axis (which is reversed in the buildings reflection in the Parramatta river). A large upper-roof garden has a disc pattern solar pergola (the entire building is ecological gold leeds) and a recycled rain reflecting pool.

As a social condenser, the new museum mixes people, nature, and culture in a riverfront plaza and 3 different roof gardens. As it appears to float, over the large riverfront plaza its form vaguely might recall the Mandjabu; beautiful anthropomorphic fish traps made by Aboriginal people.

Circulation in escalators is inscribed in the facades for joy of viewing out and is grouped near the glass elevators to facilitate interior orientation for all. Office artist residences and studies at the top of the tower have natural light and views and a special stepped sky garden at the very top. This iconic new building combines scientific optimism, high technology, and the spiritual and natural values of Aboriginal Culture.

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  • architect
    • – Steven Holl Architects
    • Steven Holl ( design architect, principal )
    • Roberto Bannura ( partner in charge )
    • Chris McVoy ( senior partner, project advisor )
    • Dimitra Tsachrelia ( associate, project architect )
    • Apostolos Gredis, Lirong Tan, Peilu Chen, Zhenya Li, Hong Ching Lee (project team)
  • associate architect
    • – Conrad Gargett
    • Dale Swan ( principal, project director )
  • landscape architect
    • – Tract Consultants Pty Ltd
    • Deiter Lim ( managing director )
    • George Gallagher ( director of landscape architecture )
    • Anne Lucas ( associate landscape architecture )
  • international structural engineer
    • – Guy Nordenson Associates
    • Guy Nordenson ( partner in charge, structural engineer )
    • Erich Oswald ( associate partner PE, structural engineer )
    • Xiaoxiao Wu ( associate PE, structural engineer )
  • structural, mep engineer
    • – Aurecon Australasia Pty Ltd
    • Ross Grayson ( structural, mep engineer )
    • Stephan Logan ( design director )
  • sustainability consultant
    • – Transsolar
    • Matthias Schuler ( principal in charge )
    • Nadir Abdessemed ( sustainability consultant )
  • lighting designer
    • – L'Observatoire International
    • Herve Descottes ( principal in charge )
    • Carlos Garcia ( lighting design project manager )
  • exhibition specialists
    • – Theater Consultants Collaborative
    • Curtis Kasefang ( performance systems design )
    • Athos Zaghi ( theatre planning, auditorium design )
  • acoustical consultant
    • – Marshall Day Acoustics
    • Matthew Ottley ( associate and managing consultant )
  • cost consultant
    • – Rider Levett Bucknall
    • Cameron Smith ( director )
  • art advisor
    • – Barbara Flynn
    • Barbara Flynn

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