Project: Element, Burleigh Heads

Project Description:

The ‘green’ belt between the two towers was conceived to tie the development together but also house both private and communal open spaces for residents to enjoy.

The East Tower with a sleek linear contemporary form with utilizes a reduced palette of modern materials and colours.

The eastern facade provides a sweeping curvilinear front balcony treatment that reflects a dynamic wave form to the public realm. This form creates drama and provides a very distinctive and recognizable building feature.

The tower sits on a four storey podium base made up of strong horizontal lines to give it the pedestal base and monolithic appearance. The lower three floors have the front balcony edges square to the street for better street interaction and presentation to the public realm.

The western tower is located adjacent to the 33.5 meter frontage along the Gold Coast Highway and whilst utilizing similar building materials, colours and textures adopted on the East Tower, displays a totally different building form. This occurred naturally as a consequence of two units required on the typical floor plate on a much wider portion of the site, thus offering a square footprint to the typical floor plate, as opposed to the rectangular plate of the East Tower.

There is a strong vertical and horizontal use of columns and spandrels, which creates a strong grid matrix, but silicone jointed glass corner view panels with horizontal slab projections, provide a transparency and lightness to each corner.