MACq 01
Location
18 Hunter Street
Hobart, Tasmania
Completed 2017
Photo credits Adam Gibson
Awards 2018
Commercial Architecture Award
Australian Institute of Architects (TAS)
Publications2024
Travellers choice award winner
2022
Australian Hotel Association Awards
2019
Tasmanian Tourism Awards winner “Deluxe Accomodation”
2018
Traveller Australian Hotel Awards “Best Large Hotel”
18 Hunter Street
Hobart, Tasmania
Completed 2017
Photo credits Adam Gibson
Awards 2018
Commercial Architecture Award
Australian Institute of Architects (TAS)
Publications2024
Travellers choice award winner
2022
Australian Hotel Association Awards
2019
Tasmanian Tourism Awards winner “Deluxe Accomodation”
2018
Traveller Australian Hotel Awards “Best Large Hotel”
The essence of our approach was to create a ‘re-purposed’ waterfront warehouse, where its provenance / history is still visible in its new form. The new building reflects the overall massing and relates directly to Mac 02, its immediate neighbour on the floor of Sullivans Cove. MACq 01 is four levels; composed of a ground floor of restaurants/bars etc, with three upper floors of hotel rooms, all of which have outdoor balconies.
Warehouses were traditionally simple structures, and the aim of the MACq 01 design is to create a new vocabulary of forms that espouses the idea of waterfront warehouses in a contemporary manner. In addition to the form of the building the facade responds to this this concept through referencing of the materials and textures of the sheds that occupied the working dock historically.
The position of the building within the precinct and public nature of the use as a hotel and hospitality venues presented an opportunity and responsibility to engage with the street. The eastern and western facades address the two open forecourts at either end in a way that visually add ‘vitality and movement’ to animate them. A series of fine vertical timber slats provide a level of privacy to the hotel rooms whilst retaining views to the waterfront. The balconies on both sides of the new building are formed using sizeable balks of timber, left to ‘grey off’ to a natural weathered state.
The final element to further animate the ends of the building is the introduction at either end of a three dimensional faceted vertical recess, an element which continues into the interior of the building as triple height void which runs the length of the building. It is intentional that the nature of this void is somewhat enigmatic in form. They reflect externally the sloping angle of the large organic wall which is a primary design element of the interior of the hotel, as well as allowing a direct view out from the hotel passages.
Enlivening the open ‘working’ spaces at the east and western ends of the MACq 01 shed will create unique public areas where the general public will be able to enjoy the best harbour-front views across the water to the city itself with Mt Wellington behind it.
Warehouses were traditionally simple structures, and the aim of the MACq 01 design is to create a new vocabulary of forms that espouses the idea of waterfront warehouses in a contemporary manner. In addition to the form of the building the facade responds to this this concept through referencing of the materials and textures of the sheds that occupied the working dock historically.
The position of the building within the precinct and public nature of the use as a hotel and hospitality venues presented an opportunity and responsibility to engage with the street. The eastern and western facades address the two open forecourts at either end in a way that visually add ‘vitality and movement’ to animate them. A series of fine vertical timber slats provide a level of privacy to the hotel rooms whilst retaining views to the waterfront. The balconies on both sides of the new building are formed using sizeable balks of timber, left to ‘grey off’ to a natural weathered state.
The final element to further animate the ends of the building is the introduction at either end of a three dimensional faceted vertical recess, an element which continues into the interior of the building as triple height void which runs the length of the building. It is intentional that the nature of this void is somewhat enigmatic in form. They reflect externally the sloping angle of the large organic wall which is a primary design element of the interior of the hotel, as well as allowing a direct view out from the hotel passages.
Enlivening the open ‘working’ spaces at the east and western ends of the MACq 01 shed will create unique public areas where the general public will be able to enjoy the best harbour-front views across the water to the city itself with Mt Wellington behind it.
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