Pirovich's daring Abbotsford CLT/Passive House building unveiled
A daring design has emerged for one of Johnston Street's premier corners.
Developer Pirovich is proposing a unique 9 level building on Johnston and Nicholson Streets, complete with hanging greenery and a distinctive central staircase that may well define the design. Fieldwork have created 329 Johnston Street, which also holds secondary frontages to 236 Nicholson Street and 37 Hunter Street.
The cross laminated timer (CLT) proposal would follow in the steps of the pioneering 10-storey Forte residential building and Docklands Library, both of which utilised the CLT method and are located within Victoria Harbour.
Wall, floor and roof segments are fabricated offsite, with the building method's official website showing CLT can:
- Provide a carbon-neutral construction method
- Allow for more economic foundations and shorter construction time frames
- Allow for immediate access and easy procedures for follow-on trades
For their part, Pirovich describes 329 Johnston Street in the following fashion:
At 329 Johnston Street Abbotsford we are proposing a beautiful and sustainable new building - retail, offices, medical suites and a hotel. The building structure will be cross laminated timber, wrapped in a stunning expanded mesh.
The building fabric is seeking to achieve Passive Haus, giving future occupiers of the building a happier and healthier place to work, rest and play.
As part of the new development we are setting the building back at ground level and ceding over 200sqm of the site to the public realm.
The particulars of the prospective development sees a retail mix including café's, a convenience store and shops across the ground floor, with medical suites and offices accounting for levels one and two.
Subsequent floors carry 41 serviced apartments, split between 8 x 1 bedroom, 26 x 2 bedroom and 7 x 3 bedroom options. At its tallest point 329 Johnston Street would be 30.1m above ground, which would see the project as one of Johnston Street's tallest, with the yellow open stairwell facing Johnston Street running the height of the building.
Three levels of basement parking include provisions for 157 car parking spaces, whilst 70 bicycle spaces are at ground level. With an estimated cost of development at $20 million, Pirovich's ground breaking Abbotsford project is currently at advertising.
