Bark designs Noosa Transit Hub for 2010

Noosa Council has recently unveiled Bark Design Architects design concepts for the new Noosa Transit Hub to be built at the gateway to Noosa Junction.

The project is expected to be completed mid 2010 and cost between $5 - 7 million. Bark's design concepts focus around the integration of natural landscape as an inextricable element to the arrival and departure experience for visitors to Noosa.

Ideas of transparency and permeability propose built elements within and part of the natural landscape. The transit hub's building elements are fragmented ensuring the scale, bulk and proportion of the built form is equal to the presence of the natural subtropical landscape endemic to Noosa.

Hastings Street Visitor Information Center

Currently in documentation stage, the Noosa Visitor Information Center is due to commence construction in mid 2008. Clients are Tourism Noosa and Noosa Council whose design brief included a flexible and welcoming open building, and although a small building footprint it needed a definite 'civic' presence as a little 'gem' in Hastings Street. The roof, inspired by a leaf allows Northern light through the space and onto the street whilst the roof cantilevers over the street to enable a larger and more ambiguous arrival experience of inside and outside space - the main public visitor information space becomes part of the life of the street.

Verrierdale - On the Board

Currently at sketch design stage for international clients is the Verrierdale House in Noosa's Hinterland.

Perched on a steep slope in a heavily treed site this timber house will take in broad views of the Noosa Hinterland and the Pacific ocean. The house is essentially divided into two pavillions in an 'L' shaped plan centred around a large outdoor room / breezeway. The outdoor room frames the primary ocean view across the horizon edged plunge pool.

The house is designed for the south east queensland's ideal climate for a casual lifestyle with a strong focus on being connected well to the landscape with a strong focus on indoor outdoor subtropical living.

Anchored to the ground on the West, as the ground slopes away, the living 'platform' cantilevers out to the North and East high up in the trees. Construction is scheduled for mid 2008.

Coast Apartments

The Coast apartments is a luxury apartment project of two house sized apartments at Sunshine Beach, Queensland. Following a lengthy 12 month period of design and the Noosa Council approval process, work has recently started on site. Demolition of the existing 1970's units, tree protection and site preparation works have now been carried out with the bulk of inground works scheduled for early 2008. The builder engaged by selection and tender process is GV Emanuel Constructions, known for high quality workmanship.

GOMA Exhibition

Bark has been included in Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects

Opening May 2008, GoMA

The work of 22 contemporary Queensland architectural practices will feature in a major new exhibition exploring diverse design responses to our climate, changing lifestyle patterns and population growth. ‘Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects’ spans residential, public and institutional projects built in the last 15 years and incorporates several generations of architects.

Architects will include: Rex Addison, Andresen O’Gorman, Arkhefield, Bark, Bligh Voller Nield, Bud Brannigan Architects, Lindsay & Kerry Clare (Architectus), Cox Rayner Architects, Donovan Hill, Richard Kirk Architect, JMA Architects, M3architecture, Ian Moore Architects, Owen and Vokes, Phorm Architecture + Design, Gabriel Poole, Riddel Architecture, James Russell Architect, Brian Steendÿk, Jennifer Taylor and James Connor, Elizabeth Watson Brown Architects and Wilson Architects.

Next Wave

Bark is proud to appear in a new book titled, Next Wave: Emerging Talents in Australian Architecture, profiling 16 young architectural practices. Four of Bark’s award winning designs are detailed in the book, including Art Box, Bark Studio, Hervey Bay House and Tinbeerwah Residence.

The author, Davina Jackson, is the Associate Professor of Multi-Disciplinary Design at the University of New South Wales, and was formerly editor of Architecture Australia.

‘Next Wave’ is published by Thames & Hudson London and follows a series of International Architecture books with titles such as Super Dutch, Swiss Made, All American and Anglo Files.

Barkground

The Bark team is currently Lindy, Christoph, Neil, Sarah, Emma, Matt and Steve. Our Studio - an open and transparent 'verandah' type space, sits perched on a hillside in the Noosa Hinterland looking out to Noosa and the Pacific ocean. Bark was founded by architects Lindy Atkin and Stephen Guthrie in 1997 and has steadily grown from a partnership of two to our small practice today.

Not really sure of the final form or intention of this blog. Like design the evolving process and unexpected delights are what we find interesting about it. A place for reflection on architecture and design and perhaps connection to all those potential clients and collaborators out there.

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