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ARCHITECTURAL STATEMENT

 

John Mainwaring and Associates (JMA) Architects were commissioned to develop the proposal
submitted in Appendix D of this Report.

JMA Architects was established in 1985 by the current Design Managing Director John Mainwaring.
JMA has input their design expertise into key public projects such as the $25 million dollar
refurbishment of the Queen Street Mall in central Brisbane and the Noosaville riverfront / streetscape,
and the Noosa Junction streetscape. JMA has been the recipient of multiple design awards including
the Robin Boyd and Robin Dods Award for residential architecture, the FDG Stanley Award and the Sir
Zelman Cowan Award for institutional buildings, the National Commercial Commendation and the
National Environment Award. ‘

JMA architecture has basically evolved over a 25 year period and is intrinsically an architecture that has
developed as characteristic Australian Coastal architecture with simplicity and unpretentiousness. JMA
bring an architectural philosophy to this project of seeking to respond to the site, vista and climate.

Natural light, air movement and view lines intermix with the Applicant's requirements to produce a
stimulating and enjoyable built and landscape environment that responds to the different conditions all
year. There is a conscious effort to blur the inside and outside spaces so that the spatial configuration
suits flexibility, climate and thermal requirements.

JMA have integrated this philosophy with the proposal design for ‘Essence of Peregian’. Key to
development of the proposal was the conceptualisation of the subject site in terms of four (4) key zones,
each with differing requirements, while providing effective, seamless inter-linkages between them.

For the commercial building JMA have utilised the natural topography of the site to both hide car parking
provided for commercial uses, and enabling the proposed commercial building to read as two (2) stories
in height for passing pedestrian and vehicular traffic. JMA have ensured that the proposed commercial
building is no higher than the adjacent Peregian Beach Hotel, and is broken up into three (3) distinct
connected pavilions articulating a more domestic scale. Overhanging decks and roofs facing the street
give a subtropical palette of light and shade. A series of vertical fins along the street give a colonnade
effect, provide shading and serve as privacy from the busy David Low Way for the glass facade of the
building behind. Signage has also been designed to integrate with the colonnade fins.

The whole commercial building facade has been designed to give the Peregian Beach Village a sense
of place and artival, providing a sense of urban connectivity and transition between the tourist
accommodation zones at the rear and the Peregian Shopping Village across the street to the east.

The hostel tourist accommodation has been designed as fingers that run perpendicular to David Low
Way. The spaces in between the fingers have been utilized for open space recreation including
barbeques and swimming pools. All hostel buildings are connected via elevated walkways at all levels
with shared lifts providing on grade access throughout. Again the proposal has been designed to
carefully respond to the natural topography of the site, with all of the roofs of the hostel building rising no
higher than the roof of the existing Peregian Beach Hotel.

The vertical format beach shacks give diversity to the range and style within ‘Essence of Peregian’.
Access to these shacks is only available via pedestrian and buggies paths. All beach shacks have been
placed to obtain view corridors to the wetland and mountains to the west.

All buildings on site have been designed to maximise passive natural ventilation and sun orientation.
The overall effect will be a project setting within an organized and well maintained landscape
743 Ann Street, PO Box 1559, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006 Phone 07 3237 8899 Facsimile 07 3237 8833

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