WestWyck
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- Brief Case Study
- posted 13 May 2008
WestWyck occupies the building and grounds of the former Brunswick West Primary School in inner suburban Melbourne. The school ran out of students in the 1980s and threatened to become yet another example of quality inner-urban infrastructure that had lost its original function and faced the bulldozer. Instead, the WestWyck developers aimed to bring the building to new and vibrant life as an urban demonstration showpiece of sustainable development and good design. This has included engaging a landscape artist as part of the project team.
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- Planning, Design,
- Greyfield Development,
- Site Ecology, Place Making and Social Sustainability, Materials and Recycling, Water Management, Energy Management,
- Small (<100 lots),
- Medium Density,
- Developer, State Government, Local Government, Designer,
- Cool temperate alpine,
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The key sustainability principles that justify WestWyck being termed an 'ecovillage' are 'materials efficiency', 'energy efficiency' and 'water efficiency'. The new dwellings are designed to high standards of energy efficiency. The water management regime is pushing new boundaries in reducing reliance on mains water and minimising the discharge from the site of water via the stormwater and sewerage systems. The construction phase has reused and recycled where possible making careful decisions about the sourcing of other building products and reducing the amount of material going to landfill. The apartments and townhouses are built as healthy homes with careful application of benign materials and finishes.
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492 Victoria Street, West Brunswick, Victoria, 3055,
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