Alphington Village
FK has been engaged by Time & Place to rejuvenate a portion of the former Amcor Paper Mill site in Alphington into an urban mixed-use precinct. Across six proposed towers connected by a podium, Alphington Village will deliver 632 build-to-rent apartments, 150 affordable dwellings, 15,000sqm of retail tenancies, and 5-Star Green Star rated commercial spaces.
The proposal includes a community centre fitted with amenities, a medical centre, a childcare centre and a co-working space within Alphington Village’s podium, facilitating the project’s focus on civic vitalisation and fostering neighbourhood engagement. Supermarkets, specialty grocery spaces, and F&B tenancies across the two podium levels will activate the public realm within the precinct.
An open and generous rooftop terrace will sit above the podium, connecting the residential towers to the extensive communal amenities. Residents will have access to a gym, spa, steam room, sauna, lounge rooms, dining rooms, cinema, yoga studios and dog wash facilities located in the central volume of the podium.
Allowances for public use and green spaces to service the community’s needs were key drivers for the design of Alphington Village. Ideally located off Heidelberg Road, the site is a gateway to its surrounding neighbours and developments. The ground floor includes a ‘village square’, a council-managed landscaped park for the greater community. Restaurants and cafe tenancies surround the village square on the ground and upper levels of the podium. A unique walking trail will run through the site, east to west, with stairs leading to the top of the podium level, providing a pedestrian link through Alphington Village for residents and neighbours.
The six towers will vary in height and expression, visually creating a family of buildings. With no tower façade the same, materiality across the forms ranges from heritage-coloured bricks, textured precast panels and Australian-landscape-inspired pigmented concrete. The scale and accent of vertical datums differs from building to building, all complementing each other.