Drift Cafe
Project date: May 2011 - Category: Interior , HospitalityDrift Café is located within the recently completed Devonport Surf Life Saving Club Redevelopment on Tasmania’s North West coast. Our client’s vision was to create an enticing space which offers a casual and fun dining experience to showcase seasonal local produce.
A stripped back aesthetic of polished concrete floors, exposed ducts, radiant ceiling heaters and bay lights is tempered by a playful layering of plywood, rusted steel screens, timber seating and fabric panels. The fusion of these warmer, textured elements creates a welcoming environment for relaxed, informal dining.
The cranked plan segregates different operations, orchestrating a movement sequence from the entry, past the bar to the restaurant space. Materials and furnishings take on a darker, more refined feel to help define the transition between zones.
Geometries and materials used in the base building are reinterpreted in the fit out, with rounded plywood panels that ‘drift’ over each other lining the walls and ceiling to help create a weathered character to the spaces and an allusion to surf culture.
Vertical openings in the aluminum skin of the building shell allow shafts of sunlight to animate the dining spaces, with subtle colour used as a backdrop to highlight fabulous views of the beach and headland beyond.
A glazed frontage connects internal spaces with a covered external terrace and semi-enclosed courtyard, contained by the adjacent Surf Club building to create a protective sun-trap for bathers. The external servery caters for barefoot customers, offering a selection of gourmet burgers, drinks and ice-creams; the boldly coloured interior acting as a beacon for eager diners.
A stripped back aesthetic of polished concrete floors, exposed ducts, radiant ceiling heaters and bay lights is tempered by a playful layering of plywood, rusted steel screens, timber seating and fabric panels. The fusion of these warmer, textured elements creates a welcoming environment for relaxed, informal dining.
The cranked plan segregates different operations, orchestrating a movement sequence from the entry, past the bar to the restaurant space. Materials and furnishings take on a darker, more refined feel to help define the transition between zones.
Geometries and materials used in the base building are reinterpreted in the fit out, with rounded plywood panels that ‘drift’ over each other lining the walls and ceiling to help create a weathered character to the spaces and an allusion to surf culture.
Vertical openings in the aluminum skin of the building shell allow shafts of sunlight to animate the dining spaces, with subtle colour used as a backdrop to highlight fabulous views of the beach and headland beyond.
A glazed frontage connects internal spaces with a covered external terrace and semi-enclosed courtyard, contained by the adjacent Surf Club building to create a protective sun-trap for bathers. The external servery caters for barefoot customers, offering a selection of gourmet burgers, drinks and ice-creams; the boldly coloured interior acting as a beacon for eager diners.
STATUS:
Completion 2011PHOTOGRAPHY:
Brett Boardman
Devonport Surf Life Saving Club Redevelopment
Project date: March 2011 - Category: Interior , Sport , HospitalityThe new Surf Life Saving Club will be the first project to be delivered by Devonport City Council from the Urban Design Framework for the Mersey Bluff, a prominent natural feature forming part of the foreshore reserve.
The design of the new building provides an abstract vehicle for experiencing the unique qualities of the dynamic coastal environment, establishing a strong connection with its setting whilst creating a bold image to assist with marketing and promotional activities.
Seen from all angles, the building is treated as a sculptural element carefully placed in the manicured coastal environment, the dynamic plan form drawing on the cusp of the beach and protective Bluff headland.
To facilitate separate identities, the development is composed of two distinct pavilions sharing a common foyer space; one to house the surf club, the other incorporating high quality restaurant and cafe facilities to serve the local beach users.
An aluminium skin wraps over each pavilion, the roof forms rising and falling to modulate the internal spaces and evoke notions of waves in motion.
The new building delivers a level of sophistication to meet evolving public expectations and provide security for the future of the surf club, a valued community asset.
The design of the new building provides an abstract vehicle for experiencing the unique qualities of the dynamic coastal environment, establishing a strong connection with its setting whilst creating a bold image to assist with marketing and promotional activities.
Seen from all angles, the building is treated as a sculptural element carefully placed in the manicured coastal environment, the dynamic plan form drawing on the cusp of the beach and protective Bluff headland.
To facilitate separate identities, the development is composed of two distinct pavilions sharing a common foyer space; one to house the surf club, the other incorporating high quality restaurant and cafe facilities to serve the local beach users.
An aluminium skin wraps over each pavilion, the roof forms rising and falling to modulate the internal spaces and evoke notions of waves in motion.
The new building delivers a level of sophistication to meet evolving public expectations and provide security for the future of the surf club, a valued community asset.
STATUS:
Completion 2011PHOTOGRAPHY:
Brett Boardman
Burnie Bowls Club
Project date: February 2009 - Category: Sport , HospitalityJAWSARCHITECTS was selected to design a new home for the Burnie Bowls Club which has been located on the Burnie waterfront since the turn of last century.
As landlord, Burnie City Council required a facility which could cater for the club’s needs and also accommodate a variety of other uses and functions to enhance the idea of a recreational and social hub on the new site.
The clubhouse functions are complemented with a new indoor green to enable year-round bowling, whilst a large Bistro area satisfies the club’s social requirements and offers a venue for other community activities and social events to take place.
Gathering the functional spaces together within a singular form unifies the site and allows the building to create a stronger connection with its setting. The expressive form responds to the wider context of the surrounding hills and nearby coastline, embracing the bowling greens to provide a sheltered sunny external terrace. In places the external envelope peels back to reveal an inviting inner core.
A simple, clear span structural system for the whole building was conceived to provide a light and spacious interior whilst allowing for a quick and efficient construction period on an extremely tight budget. The large roof overhangs provide shade and external weather protection, while still allowing passive solar gain in winter.
The use of a traditional roof shape in a contemporary manner allows an iconic, yet structurally simple form to become the defining identity for the club, embracing its history whilst helping it promote to a new generation of potential members.
As landlord, Burnie City Council required a facility which could cater for the club’s needs and also accommodate a variety of other uses and functions to enhance the idea of a recreational and social hub on the new site.
The clubhouse functions are complemented with a new indoor green to enable year-round bowling, whilst a large Bistro area satisfies the club’s social requirements and offers a venue for other community activities and social events to take place.
Gathering the functional spaces together within a singular form unifies the site and allows the building to create a stronger connection with its setting. The expressive form responds to the wider context of the surrounding hills and nearby coastline, embracing the bowling greens to provide a sheltered sunny external terrace. In places the external envelope peels back to reveal an inviting inner core.
A simple, clear span structural system for the whole building was conceived to provide a light and spacious interior whilst allowing for a quick and efficient construction period on an extremely tight budget. The large roof overhangs provide shade and external weather protection, while still allowing passive solar gain in winter.
The use of a traditional roof shape in a contemporary manner allows an iconic, yet structurally simple form to become the defining identity for the club, embracing its history whilst helping it promote to a new generation of potential members.
STATUS:
Completion February 2009PHOTOGRAPHY:
Bob Iddon
Dismal Swamp
Project date: January 2009 - Category: Tourism , HospitalityDismal Swamp is a polje or sinkhole like a giant colosseum, a cauldron starting with an unusual geological formation and mixing in a brew of the mythical and the majestic.
The architecture too, is a curious blend of buildings, sculpture and structures which accentuate and describe this wondrous place.
The Visitor Centre is perched high on the rim of the polje and floats amongst the tree tops overlooking the swamp below.
Curved Blackwood beams and crown-cut veneers sourced from the nearby forest echo an era when Coopers fashioned barrels from the Blackwood. This warm timber cocoon embraces the guest shielding them from the savage westerlies.
The natural spring of the endemic Celery Top Pine beams bounces and sways the springboard amongst the giant eucalypts. The slide slips sensuously through the forest canopy propelling the visitor at an alarming pace to commence an amazing journey of discovery in the ancient forest.
The floor of the sinkhole is a featureless, flat plane, forested with an endless stand of Blackwood. To be lost in this environment creates an overwhelming experience of disorientation and alienation.
The key concept behind the Dismal Maze is the notion of developing this disorientation further and pushing the boundaries of emotional response to this alien environment, creating in the visitor's mind, a disorienting experience.
A maze winds around the sink hole floor leading the visitor on a journey of experience. The maze and the elements that are located within it actively support and reinforce the range of information that makes up the Blackwood interpretation story.
The elements to be discovered within this maze are a series of extraordinary structures evidencing different methods of construction and materials and involve a range of interpretation methods appropriate to telling the Blackwood story in an innovative and exciting manner.
The architecture too, is a curious blend of buildings, sculpture and structures which accentuate and describe this wondrous place.
The Visitor Centre is perched high on the rim of the polje and floats amongst the tree tops overlooking the swamp below.
Curved Blackwood beams and crown-cut veneers sourced from the nearby forest echo an era when Coopers fashioned barrels from the Blackwood. This warm timber cocoon embraces the guest shielding them from the savage westerlies.
The natural spring of the endemic Celery Top Pine beams bounces and sways the springboard amongst the giant eucalypts. The slide slips sensuously through the forest canopy propelling the visitor at an alarming pace to commence an amazing journey of discovery in the ancient forest.
The floor of the sinkhole is a featureless, flat plane, forested with an endless stand of Blackwood. To be lost in this environment creates an overwhelming experience of disorientation and alienation.
The key concept behind the Dismal Maze is the notion of developing this disorientation further and pushing the boundaries of emotional response to this alien environment, creating in the visitor's mind, a disorienting experience.
A maze winds around the sink hole floor leading the visitor on a journey of experience. The maze and the elements that are located within it actively support and reinforce the range of information that makes up the Blackwood interpretation story.
The elements to be discovered within this maze are a series of extraordinary structures evidencing different methods of construction and materials and involve a range of interpretation methods appropriate to telling the Blackwood story in an innovative and exciting manner.
STATUS:
Completion December 2004PHOTOGRAPHY:
Richard Bennett, Nick Osborne
Pier One Bar and Restaurant
Project date: January 2009 - Category: Interior , HospitalityAn exciting and rare brief for Tasmania has been the redevelopment of the Boardwalk at Wrest Point Casino for Federal Hotels. Situated on the foreshore of the River Derwent this innovative new bar and restaurant appeals to a demanding contemporary market.
STATUS:
Completion November 2002
Tahune Airwalk and Visitor Centre
Project date: January 2009 - Category: Tourism , HospitalityThe Tahune Airwalk takes the visitor on a thrilling ride through the giant eucalypts of the cool temperate rainforests of southern Tasmania.
A new experience; a new view of this beautiful world is accessible for all - from the very young to the very old. Perched over the understorey of Tasmania's richly diverse endemic rainforest species, a spectacular (if scary) view awaits the brave at the end of the cantilever some 40 metres above the banks of the majestic Huon River.
Return to relative comfort and safety for a coffee in the Visitor Centre for further close encounters with fiddleback Huon Pine, Celery top pine burled myrtle and figured eucalypt.
A new experience; a new view of this beautiful world is accessible for all - from the very young to the very old. Perched over the understorey of Tasmania's richly diverse endemic rainforest species, a spectacular (if scary) view awaits the brave at the end of the cantilever some 40 metres above the banks of the majestic Huon River.
Return to relative comfort and safety for a coffee in the Visitor Centre for further close encounters with fiddleback Huon Pine, Celery top pine burled myrtle and figured eucalypt.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Richard EastwoodSTATUS:
Completion September 2001
University of Tasmania Union Bar
Project date: January 2009 - Category: Education , Interior , HospitalityThe Tasmania University Union activities centre was forced to suspend music concerts due to noise disturbance to surrounding residents. Addressing this situation, the new venue uses the practical constraints of acoustic and ventilation requirements as a catalyst for the architectural expression.
The acoustic containment problems were solved by burying the building under a post-tensioned concrete roof, covered with grass and endemic gardens. Raw concrete, exposed industrial services and shafts of daylight through rusted steel skylights highlight the powerfully restrained colour scheme.
The result is a dimmable, theatrical cave; the back-drop to a variety of vibrant gatherings. Internal surfaces are generally not parallel to improve diffuse reflection of sounds, with sliding wall panels allowing a variety of simultaneous uses day and night, the space opening out to sun-drenched, tiered courtyards.
Cut into the rocky hillside, the building’s immense thermal storage capacity maintains a generally stable internal temperature and adequate day-lighting enables the large spaces to be utilized for much of the time with very little electrical energy use.
At peak capacity, the space needs a very large quantity of air movement. All inlet and exhaust ducts have extensive acoustic absorption and a labyrinth pathway. Glazed roof lights and doors to the sunny courtyards are covered at night with lead lined acoustic panels.
The new TUU Bar now provides a durable and vibrant venue for up to 1200 patrons for functions as widely diverse as student exhibitions and performances, rock concerts and dance parties with sound levels of 110dB(A) inaudible in the surrounding residential areas.
The acoustic containment problems were solved by burying the building under a post-tensioned concrete roof, covered with grass and endemic gardens. Raw concrete, exposed industrial services and shafts of daylight through rusted steel skylights highlight the powerfully restrained colour scheme.
The result is a dimmable, theatrical cave; the back-drop to a variety of vibrant gatherings. Internal surfaces are generally not parallel to improve diffuse reflection of sounds, with sliding wall panels allowing a variety of simultaneous uses day and night, the space opening out to sun-drenched, tiered courtyards.
Cut into the rocky hillside, the building’s immense thermal storage capacity maintains a generally stable internal temperature and adequate day-lighting enables the large spaces to be utilized for much of the time with very little electrical energy use.
At peak capacity, the space needs a very large quantity of air movement. All inlet and exhaust ducts have extensive acoustic absorption and a labyrinth pathway. Glazed roof lights and doors to the sunny courtyards are covered at night with lead lined acoustic panels.
The new TUU Bar now provides a durable and vibrant venue for up to 1200 patrons for functions as widely diverse as student exhibitions and performances, rock concerts and dance parties with sound levels of 110dB(A) inaudible in the surrounding residential areas.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Richard EastwoodSTATUS:
Completion December 2003
Moorilla Estate Reception Centre
Project date: January 2003 - Category: Interior , Tourism , HospitalityMoorilla Estate, established in 1958, is Tasmania's oldest commercial winery and vineyard. Located 12km north of Hobart on a peninsula in the Derwent River, the estate has a significant physical and cultural context into which the new Moorilla Wine and Food Centre has been inserted.
The building occupies the apex of the site in both topographical and hierarchical terms to capitalise on sun and views of the river and the wider landscape and to provide a strong public face to the estate. It is also sited immediately adjacent to the outdoor wine making facility so that patrons have a direct interface with the winery at work.
The two storey building consists of an entry, reception, lobby and function rooms on the lower level and restaurant and wine tasting bar on the upper level. The 't' shaped plan was generated by acknowledging two perpendicular axis. One runs the length of the peninsula [entry axis] the other relates to the head of the peninsula where the dominant contour addresses the river [view axis].
The dominant element of the architectural expression is the roof plane which unites the parts, provides a gesture to entry and works as a contemporary verandah - providing shade to the extensive glazing and defining the outdoor dining decks.
The palette is concrete, steel, aluminium, timber and glass – all expressed honestly inside and out.
The Concert Stage at the Northern end of the green and the Micro Brewery at the southern end of the restaurant, complete the composition by using the ‘view axis’ as an ordering device.
The building occupies the apex of the site in both topographical and hierarchical terms to capitalise on sun and views of the river and the wider landscape and to provide a strong public face to the estate. It is also sited immediately adjacent to the outdoor wine making facility so that patrons have a direct interface with the winery at work.
The two storey building consists of an entry, reception, lobby and function rooms on the lower level and restaurant and wine tasting bar on the upper level. The 't' shaped plan was generated by acknowledging two perpendicular axis. One runs the length of the peninsula [entry axis] the other relates to the head of the peninsula where the dominant contour addresses the river [view axis].
The dominant element of the architectural expression is the roof plane which unites the parts, provides a gesture to entry and works as a contemporary verandah - providing shade to the extensive glazing and defining the outdoor dining decks.
The palette is concrete, steel, aluminium, timber and glass – all expressed honestly inside and out.
The Concert Stage at the Northern end of the green and the Micro Brewery at the southern end of the restaurant, complete the composition by using the ‘view axis’ as an ordering device.
ARCHITECTS IN ASSOCIATION:
Craig Rosevear Architects + Jacob Allom WadeSTATUS:
Completion November 2005PHOTOGRAPHY:
Brett Boardman
