02.02.22 Noosa Council Architectural Advice

In my view these adjustments would:

    •   Break up the presentation of the built form to the street, and make the development seem
        finer grained.
    •   Create greater variation in setback from the street and in doing so satisfy PO19 (g) of the
        Major Centre Zone Code which seeks to “avoid large areas of continuous wall planes by
        varying the building setbacks and using appropriate techniques to provide visual relief.”
    •   Reduce the perception of overdevelopment on the site
    •   Reduce the number of apartments with east or west facing aspects.
    •   Conceal the excess of plot ratio being sought by the proposal

On top of this I would suggest the incorporation of more varied and articulated roof forms, variation
in building height (generally 2 storeys with some 3 storey components) shorter building lengths, and
vastly increased incorporation of subtropical design principles and Noosa design style principles.

CONCLUSION

Overall, the proposal is clearly a blocky overdevelopment of the site, due its overly long buildings,
insufficiently articulated roof forms, plan form and elevations, lack of landscaping between
buildings, universal 3 storey height, maxing out of the 12m height limit allowance, and train like
procession along the street frontage.

The architecture presented is not climatically responsive. It does not respond adequately to the
Noosa Design Style, nor subtropical design language, is not responsive to its site and will likely
promote the resident’s reliance on air conditioning and artificial lighting for thermal and lighting
comfort.