| 65 Otherplaces: Hanover Place DEVELOPMENT Russell Fredric Eco apartments raising the bar The project is being driven by a need for good quality, spacious apartment accommodation with architectural interiors in central Dunedin Award winning property and investment company Otherplaces is again set to make its mark on Dunedin’s urban landscape. After receiving multiple awards for Ebb-Dunedin, a modern boutique hotel in the central city, plans are well-advanced for Otherplaces next commercial development, Hanover Place, a five level design-led apartment building proposed for Hanover Street. Otherplaces director Dylan Cazemier has a strong vision for design-led projects. “Rather than profit-led development, it’s development-led by a particular design outcome; for this project it is user functionality and sustainability,” Dylan says. “We exist to challenge and change the norm of development, to create a better built environment that is more socially and environmentally sustainable than what is currently known.” Despite this, commercial reality remains, and due diligence by Dylan involves running financial models and thoroughly assessing the feasibility of any development. Resource consent has been approved, and the building consent will be lodged next year for Hanover Place, which will be a five level ground-up project, and when approved, work is expected to start from the middle of this year. The project is being driven by a need for good quality, spacious apartment accommodation with architectural interiors in central Dunedin, where the design would be the key selling point, Dylan says. “We saw a gap in the market for someone to do that.” Hanover Place’s striking exterior will mix contemporary design with art deco and will provide 13 one bedroom apartments of 50 square metres and three two bedroom apartments of 80 square metres. “We would like to target professionals and people that work in the city and want to live nearby in a quality residential apartment. “A secondary market is people that live info@pt lnz.com | www.pt lnz.com | Chr istchurch | Queenstown STRUCTURAL CONSULTANTS PTL are your next Structural and Fire engineering team. We offer professional consulting services for residential , commercial and industrial buildings by combining state-of-the-art technology and expert specialist engineers. PTL work with architects, developers and construction companies to provide innovative and economical structural and fire solutions, as quickly as possible. elsewhere and that want a vacant apartment that they can use when visiting.” The central location provides considerable convenience for work, retail, hospitality and key facilities such as the hospital and Otago University. The location is perfectly positioned to access the new hospital and to enjoy the new George St upgrades. Architect Campbell McNeill of design collective AHHA Studio says the building will on a small footprint of 30 metres by 10 metres. “The form is largely driven by those site constraints,” Campbell says. The exterior design is demarcated horizontally by the ground and top levels featuring different materials and textures to levels one to three. These have lightweight timber cement panels, while the perimeter of the top and ground levels are set back to create a variation to the overall bulk of the building. In keeping with Otherplaces’ sustainable ethos, the design aims to limit impact on the environment through the promotion of low carbon materials and building systems employing mass timber construction, passive façade design, efficient water and lighting fixtures and optimised glazing ratios. The project is a part of the Mid-Rise Wood Construction Programme backed by the Ministry for Primary Industries and Red Stag Investments to deliver case studies in mass timber innovation for the New Zealand Industry. “We were looking at a lightweight construction methodology of cross laminated timber and steel framing and all the façade cladding elements all have a lightweight composition as well. “We are really keen on the project because the idea of bringing more people into the city is really attractive to us and we think that Dunedin’s going to benefit from that type of living a lot more.
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