Above: Pyrmont station’s Miller Street entrance, as designed by Tim Greer of Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, Leonard Lynch of Clouston and artist Ruth Downes.
A second design workshop has resulted in three different visions of how metro stations at Pyrmont and Rozelle might look.
The sample designs were developed by three design teams, each comprising a top architect, landscape architect and public artist, in order to test the design principles.
The draft principles cover a range of issues, including built form, materials, heritage, public art and landscaping.
These design principles will be given to the successful contractor who will build the stations.
NSW government architect and chairman of Sydney Metro’s Design Review Panel, Peter Mould, said the teams’ contrasting visions had helped the clarify and sharpen the design principles.
“This exercise has been focused on engaging the community in a discussion about what attributes are important for metro stations,” Mould said.
?The idea that the stations’ designs should contribute to a sense of place was a key outcome, he said.
“There were also many comments about the importance of achieving a layout that enabled easy pedestrian, bus and cycle connections into the Metro,” he said.
Sydney’s famous yellow sandstone was extensively used in the workshop designs. Port Jackson fig trees were also incorporated by some teams, including station entrances lit by a series of light tubes in the form of tree roots, acting as both lighting and public art.
Solar panels and other sustainability measures, such as cycle storage featured heavily.
There was a mixture of approaches at Rozelle, with both plaza-based designs and designs that involved “gateway” buildings on the corners of Darling Street.
Natural features were worked into the Pyrmont design, such as a sandstone cliff into the design of the western entrance at Miller Street.
Below: Pyrmont Station as designed by Allen Jack + Cottier; Pyrmont Station as designed by FJMT; Rozelle Station as designed by Tonkin, Zulaikha Greer and Clouston; Rozelle Station as designed by McGregor Coxall; Rozelle Station as designed by FJMT.
