The platform

The platform

The Platform


Arcadia worked with Architectus and CityWest Housing to develop this inner city affordable housing project within the Carriageworks Precinct. Arcadia’s design needed to provide strategies to balance the existing post-industrial landscape character with the future residential use and requirement for amenity. Landscaped zones provide a subtle transition to the building edge. Social engagement has been promoted at the streetscape interface with benches and open space while the internal areas are designed to cater for various sized groups. In an area with minimal flora or fauna on the streetscape, this precinct is characterised by the inclusion of an urban forest of a mixed native tree canopy, which attract native wildlife and help to moderate the local climate – slowing wind and reducing the urban heat island effect during the summer months.

Client: CityWest Housing
Location: North Eveleigh, NSW
Indigenous Nation: Dharug (Eora) - Gadigal