- 5 May 2024
- 3104 defa okundu.
PHIVE
The project "PHIVE", located in Parramatta square is an exceptional public and cultural facility filled with community and exhibition spaces all around the main library, as well as the City of Parramatta’s Council Chamber.
Parramatta city is located on the west side of Sydney, being part of the Great Sydney as an important business district.
The project “PHIVE”, located in Parramatta square is an exceptional public and cultural facility filled with community and exhibition spaces all around the main library, as well as the City of Parramatta’s Council Chamber.
The building also houses a Discovery Centre and cultural heritage spaces which includes interactive displays and exhibitions, and an Aboriginal Keeping Place for local Indigenous objects.
A Research Lab and professional services provides access to Council’s cultural heritage collection, and cultural programs.
Phive is now a new city landmark and a place where locals and visitors can meet, discover, learn and share.
THE GLOBAL URBAN APPROACH
The city’s main central esplanade runs alongside the site and the Townhall on the south facade.
We wanted to accentuate the luminosity of the square and its openness to the sky and the sun, all over the year.
Sculpting the project’s volume with the sun course, was also a very sustainable and human goal: allowing the sun all along the year to illuminate the esplanade is a generous way to celebrate and emphasize the notion of “public space”.
THE ENVELOPE, BOTH A ROOF AND A FAÇADE, WORKS AS A MAGNIFICIENT PROTECTIVE SKIN
The envelop, which is both a roof and a façade, is made of hundreds of folded panels that open views successively to the west and the east, to the square and the sky, expressing the uniqueness of this public and cultural building. It is also a very sustainable skin, protecting from heat while filtering light and views, creating a poetic atmosphere internally and to the exterior of the project.
The colors are inspired by the soil and the local flora, such as native waratah, bottle brush and grevillea.
The slopped envelop is also precisely drawn and sculpted itself to act as a passive thermal design. Phive is an holistic project, which is sculpted to encourage hot air to move up until the spire.
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