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Location
Melbourne, VIC
Builder
May Constructions
Collaborators
Rush Wright Associates
Photographer
Peter Clarke
Housing people not cars.
A car park sitting at the base of a 37-storey tower had an incredible outlook and guaranteed solar access in the centre of the CBD. The heritage listed State Library of Victoria sits opposite the site. Not only does it provide a beautiful aspect — it could never be built out. Solar access is guaranteed in perpetuity. It was just too good to pass up.
Gripped between a commercial plinth with multi-storey car park and a residential tower above, QV8 is the adaptation of a disused car parking level into eight bespoke apartments. The project is an opportune appropriation of an environmentally counter-intuitive typology: the inner city car park, and provides a new precedent for urban infill housing. By establishing luxuriously deep north facing balconies and circulation edged with vegetation, QV8 will flourish over time to create a ‘green band’, providing lush material relief amongst the hard-edged streetscape.
We acknowledge the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which QV8 stands. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters, and culture.
Housing people not cars.
A car park sitting at the base of a 37-storey tower had an incredible outlook and guaranteed solar access in the centre of the CBD. The heritage listed State Library of Victoria sits opposite the site. Not only does it provide a beautiful aspect — it could never be built out. Solar access is guaranteed in perpetuity. It was just too good to pass up.
Gripped between a commercial plinth with multi-storey car park and a residential tower above, QV8 is the adaptation of a disused car parking level into eight bespoke apartments. The project is an opportune appropriation of an environmentally counter-intuitive typology: the inner city car park, and provides a new precedent for urban infill housing. By establishing luxuriously deep north facing balconies and circulation edged with vegetation, QV8 will flourish over time to create a ‘green band’, providing lush material relief amongst the hard-edged streetscape.
Location
Melbourne, VIC
Builder
May Constructions
Collaborators
Rush Wright Associates
Photographer
Peter Clarke
We acknowledge the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which QV8 stands. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters, and culture.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Breathe acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Breathe stands. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.
