Bamboo Garden · One Central Park
Sydney, Australia
© Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Paris, France
ONE CENTRAL PARK – SEVEN GARDENS
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One Central Park’s public spaces are organized as a collection of seven gardens that are treated like individual installations, each with its own distinct theme. Like the planted plateaus rising along the South facades of the towers, the seven gardens extend the presence of the public park into semi-private spaces. They fulfill the same functional and symbolic purpose of staging encounters with nature but do so in more intimate and immersive settings.
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BAMBOO GARDEN
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One Central Park’s taller East Tower differentiates separate entrances for high- and low-rise apartments, as well as a corner café all in one same lobby. The point of gathering all of these programs in one double height space is to keep the overall proportion of the entrance generous and in scale with the tower. Bamboo screens extend the green veil of the tower facades into the entrance and create permeable screens between programs. The materiality of the room is a cornerless sequence of bamboo veneer bands that become built-in furniture where needed, like seating in the lobbies and café or a concealed counter at the reception. The bamboo fibers are the only natural material that is flexible enough to wrap around the challenging tight bends of the undulating ribbons. The living bamboo plants, and the materiality of the walls derived from them form the conceptual unity that holds this space together.
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