Ballarat designers up for building awards

Project Now have been shortlisted for the Building Designers Association of Victoria’s 2019 Building Design Awards to be held at NGV International in Melbourne on 27 July.

DESIGNS build by Project Now – Aspect Parade in Alfredton and Ballarat West’s Westlab – will compete against 54 buildings from around the state.

Luke Jennings, a Designer at Project Now said the Aspect Parade project was challenging as it sits on the edge of an estate and has a dual street frontage.

“On such an open site, with constraints abound, the project has been delivered as a triumph of materiality and siting,” he said.

“The responsiveness to its site context combined with the need for a subtle, private dwelling has helped form a sense of belonging to its location and a home of introspective warmth and sophistication.

“A sanctuary from the visual and aural noise of a busy estate for the clients to retreat to, whilst still providing a social aspect and togetherness and connectedness once inside the home.”

Westlab was a contrasting project, being a warehouse with a dynamic office and meeting space attached.

“The building takes the utilitarian, traditional warehouse and office typology and brings it into the future through the innovative use of a two toned metal screen, which both performs as a pragmatic screening of both privacy and light, but also creates an exciting and dynamic physical representation of the ethos of a company in an industry that strives for innovation and creativity,” Mr Jennings said.

The team was pleased to be up for an award again, having experienced previous BDAV gongs.

“We’ve been a long-standing member of the Building Designers Association of Victoria. Over the last few years we’ve been nominated for a few different projects, and in 2017 and 2018 we were successful,” he said.

Mr Jennings hopes the team experiences a win throughout the formally judged industry awards of the night, as well as in the People’s Choice.

The BDAV’s annual awards recognise and celebrate the best residential, interior, sustainable, heritage conservation and non-residential design work.