Now fully complete (and fully sold), the apartments at 30 Madden Street make for a stylish eco precinct which will become a community in itself. It has a slightly playful character, perfectly in keeping with its location and both the developers and architects intention.
Client
Willis Bond & Co
Architect
Studio Pacific Architecture
Contractor
LT McGuiness
Location
Auckland's newest waterfront development
The Wynyard Quarter is Auckland's newest waterfront development. Located within it is 30 Madden Street, a multi-unit residential development comprising 153 townhouses, duplexes and a number of commercial spaces.
The design is vibrant and stylish, exterior reflective of the high quality accommodation within. The use of colour on the building, the choice of material in the surrounding grounds and selection of native plants, all combine to create a space that feels open, airy and alive.
Subtly blending into this design, providing an unobtrusive but effective purpose, are the use of Aurora 150, Aurora 250 and Solaris 150 fixed louvre blades.
The Plant Room on the roof uses Aurora 150 fixed aluminium louvre blades in a Duratec powder coat finish. Those louvre blades are set at 200mm centres and pitched at 45 degrees.
They effectively disappear from conscious sight, blending into the overall design in such a way that the eye is drawn away from the plant room to other parts of the building.
Aurora 250 louvres, in the same finish, are used on the Terrace/Stair Level Area and fixed at the head and sill via bracketry. They provide thermal control for the interior stairwell, a space which can typically overhead and quickly become uncomfortable for occupants.
The same problem is solved in other stair areas of the apartment complex, with the use of the smaller Solaris 150 louvres, in the same coloured powder coat finish. This passive control of thermal contributes to one of the main goals of the development, which was the obtainment of a 7-Star Homestar Rating.
