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the project
The Point Street Development is the result of an EOI from the City of Fremantle to redevelop its car park and retail space in the northern sector of the Fremantle CBD.
The Development will be Fremantle's first Carbon Neutral building is with a two-level basement, five above-grade floors and roof gardens. It provides a southern backdrop to Princess May Park.
The basements will be used for water harvest storage, mechanical and other plant, car parking, lockers, bike storage and End of Trip facilities.
The ground floor will be for retail and high traffic offices. The building layout, with it north facing internal courtyard, will provide high levels of natural daylight and ventilation to tenancies. Strong visual links with Princess May Park will provide desirable passive supervision to park activities.
The Upper levels are designed for offices, residential and the Innovation Hub, which consists of serviced offices, small commercial space and business incubators.
The site will contribute to power generation using edge mounted Wind Pods and photovoltaic cells located on the roof of the building. A roof garden and a green wall with contribute to Urban Heat Island mitigation; will provide insulation to the roof and views to harbour and the city.
Designed for the Fremantle microclimate, the building will capture the Fremantle winds for summer cooling and natural ventilation. Water saving is affected through vacuum sewerage systems and storm and wastewater harvesting.
Natural light penetration comes through the void in the building and the north facing internal courtyard.
With uninterrupted sub-floor space, complete flexibility can be provided for horizontal services. Should a tenancy change from office space to either residential or a laboratory, the services can be brought through the floor to an exact location with no structural change. The use of vacuum sewerage allows waste pipes to be flexible and independent of grading to falls.
This is a building for the new millennium; with excellent sustainability credentialst and unprecedented flexibility of use.