Site Analysis - Design Studio 5

Site: Corner BEACH and ARCADIA street, COOGEE NSW 2034




This Elevation and Section serve to show what the existing streetscape of the site looks like and the slope of the Beach Street facade.I found the slope to be roughly 6 degrees incline. I chose to draw the buildings behind and the Heritage building (Rosilyn Mansion), existing cafe/restaurants that currently occupy the land and the units across the road to see the relationships in height and building sizes. Due to the steep incline/decline of the site, the current cafe/restaurants have a very small effect on the surrounding buildings in terms of height and view obstruction.


This 1:500 Site survey looks at the building numbers and heights in terms of storeys, roads and footpaths as well as trees and shrubbery in the local context. I did a little extra research into the site's listing in the Randwick DCP and found that the Beach St facade is of importance to the FORESHORE SCENIC PROTECTION line, which by definition helps prevent designs that make the streetscape look "unsightly". The soils in and around the block of land are in a high level of Acid Sulfate Soils, so we are going to have to take extra precaution when going underground for the Carpark/Jazz Club.



In this 1:100 section through the site, I tried to analyse the site like the DCP and RFDC recommend where neighbouring windows, view obstruction, heights, overshadowing and setbacks are considered. This is a more detailed analysis that looks at the immediate context of the site.



In this 1:100 section we can see that using the maximum height from the south end to the north will have an effect on the Heritage building's facade and their views of the ocean. Another factor that was apparent is that with all the setbacks restricting our building footprint on the site, there simply isn't enough land for us to design for all the amenities. [3.5m minimum to the sides, 6m to the rear] We can object the setback of the Beach street and Arcadia street facades as it already has existing land-use rights.