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Lighthouse Apartments

Part 1 Project 2003
Entoine Tran
Jonathan Orlek
 Curtin University Perth | Australia
Following the East Perth Redevelopment Scheme and given the location, Lighthouse Apartments was envisaged to potentially become an iconic beacon - reuniting the East Perth and Gateway community with the heart of city. Promoting individuality, the project needed to break from the typology of “honeycombed” apartment buildings and through the use of colour and light in collaboration with form, and with the dichotomy between internal and external spaces, it seemed achievable. Internal apartments were approached as “liveable galleries”, blurring the boundary between interior and exterior spaces, allowing small volumes to be extended and immersing apartment dwellers into their inner-city setting.


Set in an area of urban residential renewal on a prominent site at the eastern end of the city, this design project makes a well considered transformation of an existing inward-looking, late 1960’s government office building into a designed collection of distinct apartment types. Tran illustrates his combined understanding and command of the holistic design of the building’s exterior presence, its interior spatial sequence and composition and the creative adaptation of the existing building plan and section for the provision of many possibilities for apartment living. An admirable level of refinement of the spatial and utilitarian needs of one specific developed apartment type is evident in this project.
Tutor(s)
Dr Doina Petrescu
2003
Title Page and Basic Conceptual Images of Lighthouse Apartments Scheme.
2. Cross Section, Floor Plans and Photos of existing Main Roads Department Office Building, to be converted into apartments.
3. Side and Front Elevation of existing Main Roads Department Office Building.
4. Overall Cross Section and Typical General Floor Plans for proposed Lighthouse Apartments Scheme.
5. Longitudinal Section of Lighthouse Apartments Scheme and Conceptual Image of South West Façade.
6. Detailed Floor Plan and Location Diagrams of a developed Fourth Floor Apartment Unit.
7. Detailed Cross Section through Living Space of developed Fourth Floor Apartment Unit.
8. Detailed Cross Section through Bedroom and Wet Areas of developed Fourth Floor Apartment Unit.
9. View of Lighthouse Apartments driving north from Plain Street.
View Lighthouse Apartments Façade from south at Corner of Plain Street.
View of North Façade of Lighthouse Apartments coming in from the Horatio Street Entranceway, overlooking the walkway entrance with the basement car park beneath
View from within the Basement Car Park Elevator looking partway to the exterior entranceway and partway to the internal main lobby.
View from within the Main Lobby.
View from within the Sub Lobby.
View from within the Fourth Floor Shared Lobby and Corridor lit internally by a light well running down the entire building.
View from within the entranceway looking directly into kitchen and Living Space of the chosen Fourth Floor Apartment unit.
View from within the Bedroom of the chosen Fourth Floor Apartment unit.
18. Title Page and Basic Conceptual Images of Lighthouse Apartments Scheme.
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