The winning scheme in a City of Sydney Design Excellence Competition, Mulgu Place is a collaboration between MHNDU and AHMM for Meriton as part of their redevelopment of a former car yard site in Zetland, Sydney.
A mixed-use development comprising four buildings ranging from five to fourteen storeys set around the new Mulgu Park. The scheme provides 241 residential apartments, offering a variety of unit layouts complemented by retail on the ground floor along Link and Epsom Road. AHMM has designed two buildings along the western boundary, The Corner Building and The Park Terraces, whilst MHNDU designed The Link Building and The Park Tower, respectively.
The Corner Building addresses the park with a traditional chamfered corner and delivers four flats per level within a compact footprint. The unit planning allows for all the living spaces and private open spaces to be orientated towards the amenity offered by the park. The façade consists of three tones of precast concrete, a smooth horizontal band expressing each floor plate, a textured corrugated vertical infill panel that echoes the tin sheds of the site’s prior industrial uses, and a highlight spandrel panel to the windows and terraces.
Situated directly overlooking Mulgu Park, the Park Terraces offer larger homes, each with generous open plan living. The homes on the ground floor each have front doors and gardens onto Defries Avenue and rear views to a shared garden. The façade comprises a series of simple precast concrete in-fill panels with a corrugated imprint that references the site's industrial heritage set within a vertical and horizontal order.