Project Overview

This meticulously planned project is the culmination of the visions of a carefully selected team. We travelled the globe gaining inspiration from the world’s most vibrant and exciting urban developments and locations to bring this adventurous project to life.

Organisation

PAYCE

Team

Owner: PAYCE
Architect: Turner
Interior Architect: Koichi Takada Architects
Landscape Architect: Hassell
Project Manager: Iconic Management
Retail Project Manager: Wallaringa Consulting
Builder: Dasco
Sales & Marketing: Link Marketing

Project Brief

East Village is quite simply one of a kind; Sydney's most unique, inspired and integrated residential, retail and dining precinct. Located just 3kms from the Sydney CBD, East Village is set to redefine Victoria Park and complete its ongoing transformation into a cosmopolitan residential, commercial, cultural and entertainment destination.

East Village is a truly unique offering of low-rise apartments surrounding a private 6,500sqm Sky Park, with instant access to a globally inspired Urban Marketplace and Eat Street consisting of cafés, restaurants, fresh food and boutique stores.

The collective team has been pivotal in the planning and creation of East Village. More than simply bricks and mortar, East Village will be a thriving, living place catering for a rich diversity of people and demographics.

Project Innovation/Need

East Village is a dynamic, fresh, vibrant, integrated precinct. It will incorporate 206 contemporary apartments, a fresh food culinary destination and a unique Sky Park. A private oasis for the residents of East Village, the Sky Park is one of the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.

Building on the idea of living above a park, the interior concept is based on forests, designed to draw the natural landscape inside and create continuity and balance between the external and interior environment.

The development seeks to enhance the experience of the surrounding area. It will make the most of the natural assets, such as the reserve at street level and improve the surrounding street character.

When you walk through the doors of the retail precinct you’ll experience the vibrant activity and atmosphere of a truly local village in the heart of the city. Smell freshly roasted coffee, engage with Sydney’s best fresh food providores in an amazing social space.

The new public spaces created by the development, along with the proposed interaction with the parkland reserve, will offer a setting for community activity and integration with the wider Victoria Park community.

Design Challenge

We live in an intensively dense, urban context which is very exciting. So we have designed East Village as a series of low-rise residential buildings sitting around a communal open space; one that has the effective scale of an urban park at 6,500sqm. Because of the vast horizontal surface of the project – nearly 1.6 hectares – it means the shallower depth residential component sits around the perimeter frames and contains this vast common space. This ensures residents have a privatised park that’s their immediate amenity – their broader context and broader amenity lies in the fantastic public domain infrastructure which is found within Victoria Park.

Sustainability

East Village is proud to embrace the Sustainable Sydney 2030 Blueprint. And it will use a number of initiatives to achieve a 5 Star Green Star Design rating.

The base plant and building management control systems will be ‘state of the art’ in terms of efficiency. The backbone to the plant will be two chamber substations and a trigenerator plant, this reflects the efficiency with which the building is designed, structurally, mechanically and hydraulically.

Some of the initiatives include:
A landscaped private Sky Park above the shopping centre (an area the size of a football field) that will insulate the marketplace. This will reduce building energy consumption, assist with CO2 absorption, help with storm water management and foster diverse plant life.
Waste water collection. That waste water will help water the landscaped zones.
Energy efficient lighting for the commercial centre and residential zones.
Environmentally friendly and recycled materials were used to construct East Village
There will be cycle bays for bike riders.
And East Village promotes the use of public transport – by being less than a 10-minute walk from the bus stop, railway station and light rail station.