Design Sheltering itself from the harder traffic of the main arterial of Athol Oaklands Drive on the site ’ s west boundary with large and almost uninterrupted planes , the building ’ s softer centre opens to the north – acknowledging the park with a small parking forecourt accessed on grade level . This courtyard-like space , filled with soft landscaping of trees and timber planter boxes , serves as a lobby to the retail spaces beyond , describing an abstraction of positive to negative space between the building and the park .
Users are directed from this court and the two parking basements beneath , to the respective retail levels by means of a circulation core , comprising a pair of stairs , an escalator and a lift . This triple volume space with cantilevered steel staircase , glazed view lift and solar controlled glass façade , features as the building ’ s key locator and orienteering mark for its users – both within the building complex and those external to the site .
The ground floor retail level comprises finer detail of a simple and well articulated mall
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