In Clifton Hill the development of thirty apartments on the site of a former theatre turned hat factory was an exercise in maximising the development potential for the client. The design was within an existing structure which was built to house a theatre and factories, creating aspects,views and amenities for the future residents and transforming the existing degraded industrial streetscape into residential facades of a scale and character appropriate to the location and the market. While this was done, a building of local interest was re-used to provide residential choices not previously available in this neighbourhood, adding considerable improvement to its character in a denser residential ratio than that of the surrounding streets.

for human habitation in a landscape. They also allow the design to become self-evident by splitting the building into a 'head' and a 'body'. Hence the administration and the manufacturing functions can still be identified.

This project creates a way of maintaining the large-scale qualities of the industrial landscape and works with these to articulate the building environment in response to both pedestrian and vehicular considerations.