ParkLife | Melbourne, Australia | 2022
[Austin Maynard Architects]
Located in Brunswick and set within the Nightingale Village – Australia’s first carbon neutral residential precinct – ParkLife is a high-performing, beautifully designed, community-focused apartment building containing 37 homes and two commercial tenancies.
Regarded as the social hub of the village, ParkLife has a distinctive mountainous roofline and a unique rooftop amphitheatre, as well as a variety of social/communal areas, diverse in scale, location and character. Homes within comprise of 14 one-bedroom, 19 two-bedroom, 2 three-bedroom and 2 Teilhaus apartments, each designed to extol space-efficiency, functionality and flexibility. Five of the apartments are designated social housing, through Housing Choices Australia.
Excelling within the industry code for sustainability, ParkLife has an average NatHERS rating of 9 stars, making it the most sustainable building at The Village. Text description by the architects.
Source: www.maynardarchitects.com
Photography by: Tom Ross
Site Area: 706 m2
