Countdown Warkworth by ASC Architects

ArchiPro Project Summary - A thoughtfully designed supermarket development that harmonizes with Warkworth's intimate town center, featuring small-scale street front retail and innovative lighting treatments for enhanced public engagement.

Title:: Countdown Warkworth
Architect:: ASC Architects
Category:: Commercial/; Retail

The particular challenges of this project centered around the need to design a building which reflects the small scale intimate character of the Warkworth town centre and at the same time find a way to sleeve a large new supermarket development.

ASC Architects solution, which was supported by Rodney Distrct Council, addressed this challenge by sleeving the large mass of the supermarket behind a length of small scale street front retail. This also provided the opportunity to obscure the service elements of the operation since this site has two street frontages. The bulk of the supermarket is recessed into an existing change in level across the site so in this way its vertical bulk has also been successfully treated.

The Mill Lane elevation was seen as an opportunity to create a public sculpture in the form of lighting treatment. This treatment adds great dynamism to the street face as well as providing night time illumination to the street edge.

The project received resource content in 2010.

Photography: Michael Ng

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