The Village Centre
At the heart of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village, “The Village Centre” on Lot 14 has been designed to set a bench mark in South-east Queensland for sustainable building design, and for energy efficient building within the development sector.
Mixed residential, retail and community uses have been designed to merge on a thoughtfully designed cluster of individual buildings.
- The Kelvin Grove Urban Village master plan envisages the site developing as the village’s social and commercial hub, containing residential units, a supermarket, ground floor retail tenancies, and a lively restaurant and café scene, to compliment the creative industries and recreational precincts nearby.
- In keeping with these themes, The Village Centre has been designed as an integrated retail and residential development that will incorporate a multitude of mixed uses together with communal open space areas located central to the precinct.
- Communal areas will be appropriately landscaped with hard and soft landscaped features, which will contribute to the visual amenity of The Village Centre development and provide a recreational focus for residence and visitors alike.
- The overall development will comprise four (4) building forms, ranging in height from seven (7) to nine (9) storeys above finished ground level, plus three (3) basement car parking levels. Each building will have its own distinctive identity, and be differentiated by varying architectural treatments.
- Residential and commercial uses will comprise the following:
- One (1), two (2) and three (3) bedroom units, totaling 213 units, to provide a range of housing choices.
- Twenty three (23) retail tenancies in the market place intended to cater for restaurants, a fruit and vegetable store, a chemist, a bakery and other specialty stores, with direct access from the street;
- An Action supermarket;
- A medical centre, and customer facilities; and
- A restaurant precinct opposite the Carraway Street Park.
SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES
Building on the sustainability measures contained in the KGUV Design Guidelines by Queensland Housing, the project team has included a number of specialist ideas and innovations.
Innovations cover a range of areas established by the Green Star rating system, including matters such as:
- Buildings designed to provide for natural ventilation, and to reduce the demand on material resources;
- Measures to utilize solar energy, such as maximize natural lights and solar hot water systems;
- Transport initiatives to encourage walking and cycling, and minimize vehicle dependence;
- Water conservation, and storm water management, to conserve water and utilize water in the site catchment;
- Avoidance of pollution-causing chemicals and the like on site;
- Reduction, re-use and recycling of an on site waste; and
- Other measures to encourage a suitable cultural and social environment in the local community.
These ideas and innovations comply with those measures identified in the KGUV Design Guidelines, and are documented in an ESD Outcomes List.
