Heritage
Our approach to interventions and additions to heritage buildings is to ensure that contemporary architectural forms are carefully designed to form direct and clear relationships with the existing buildings in terms of scale, proportion and materiality while being uncompromisingly new.
We seek to create a new architectural layer on the site designed in the innovative and ‘forward looking’ spirit that underpinned the original building’s construction. This ‘layered’ approach places new and old in a bold transforming relationship, i.e. of related but opposite/dialectical character; new and old, light and heavy, stone and glass. The outcome is a rich and complex assembly of form and spaces through which the layers and events of the site can be read and interpreted.
Our heritage work includes adaptive reuse, giving existing buildings new purpose, from SubStation No. 164 in Sydney to Parliament Square in Hobart.
fjcstudio has also established an excellent and effective relationship with the Heritage Council. Again, this relationship has been established with the Council as a working group and directly with the individual members themselves as with the City of Sydney Council, several Heritage Council members have independently been instrumental in selecting our studio as the consultant for development of sensitive heritage sites.
fjcstudio has made numerous presentations to the Heritage Council with the work and recommendations of fjcstudio being consistently well received by the Council. fjcstudio has also been successful in obtaining approval from the Heritage Council for several sensitive heritage projects within the City of Sydney.