세계적인 자연문화유산지역, 태즈메니이아 야생지대의 전기관련 시설로 약 20여년간 사용된 펌프하우스 포인트는 태즈메니이아 관광사업에 따라 새로운 휴게및 숙박공간으로 리뉴얼된다. 태즈메디아 관광사업을 위해 기존 컨텍스트는 최대한 활용 하거나 재활용된다. 이는 한정적인 예산내 최대의 효과를 얻기위함으로 기존 두개의 존치물, 콘크리트 아트 데코빌딩(펌프하우스와 슈어하우스)는 이곳 야생지대의 숙박 및 휴양시설로 제공된다.
펌프하우스와 슈어하우스는 1940년대 펌프 터빈을 위해 지어진 3층 건물로, 오피스와 터빈관리를 위한 워크샵으로 구성되며 각각 호수와 호수 가장자리 대지위에 자리한다.(펌프하우스는 250미터 길이의 콘크리트 데크를 통해 지면과 연결되며 그 지면의 연결지점에 슈어하우스가 위치한다.)
새로운 18개의 객실은 기존 콘크리트 빌딩 안에 삽입된다.(기존 외형은 건드리지 않는다. 이는 기존의 장소에 대한 아이텐티를 연속시키는 동시에 비용을 최소화하기 위함이다.) 12개는 펌프하우스에 6개는 슈어하우스에 구성되며, 각각 간단한 조리를 할 수 있는 간이주방과 메인 커뮤얼 라운지/ 다이닝 룸이 준비된다. 최소한의 건축행위는 한정적인 예산의 이유도 있지만 기존 장소에 대한 연속성을 보장, 아이텐티를 확보하는데 의의가 있으며 풍부한 자연환경과의 적극적인 조우를 방해하는 장애물(거추장 스러운 장식물)을 제거한다. 무엇보다 호수 위에 부유하는 펌프하우스의 인상적인 장면은 이곳에 클라이막스(자연과 건축이 만나는)가 아닐까 싶다.
reviewed by SJ, 오사
Located just inside the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, Pumphouse Point was originally constructed as part of Tasmania’s hydro electric scheme and has been unused for over twenty years before being redeveloped.
Architects: Cumulus Studio
Location: Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Lake St Clair Road, Lake Saint Clair TAS 7140, Australia
Architect In Charge: Chris Roberts, Liz Walsh, Peter Walker, Todd Henderson
Area: 1035.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Stuart Gibson, Adam Gibson, Sharyn Cairns
Civil: Gandy & Roberts Engineers
Hydraulic: Gandy & Roberts Engineers
Structural: Gandy & Roberts Engineers
Electrical: TBS Engineering
Mechanical: TBS Engineering
Fire Engineering: Castellan Consulting
Acoustic: Vipac
Building Surveyors: Green Building Surveyors
Environmental: Red Sustainably
Builder: Mead Con
The redevelopment, which has already become a signature project for Tasmanian tourism, involved the adaptive reuse and refurbishment of two existing, heritage listed, off-form concrete art deco buildings – ‘The Pumphouse’ and ‘The Shorehouse’ – into a wilderness retreat.
The Pumphouse, a three storey building originally constructed in the 1940s to house pump turbines, sits on Lake St Clair at the end of a 250m concrete flume which is its only connection to land. The Shorehouse, located at the start of the flume on the edge of the lake, was constructed at the same time and accommodated offices and a maintenance workshop for the turbines. Eighteen new guest suites have been inserted within the existing concrete building envelopes – twelve of these are located in The Pumphouse and the remaining six are within The Shorehouse. The Shorehouse also accommodates the prep kitchen and main communal lounge / dining room.
Only minimal work has been done to the exterior of the buildings. This is a deliberate response to maintain the high heritage value of the existing buildings and to emphasise the contrast between the new interiors and the exterior – their distressed condition a testament to the harsh environment in which they are located.
The approach to The Pumphouse building, surrounded by mountains and water, heightens the anticipation and sense of arrival. Guests pass through solid metal doors into the entry foyer – an intermediate zone through which guests are brought gently into the comfort of the suites from the rawness of the wilderness outside. The twelve studio-sized suites run lengthways down the two outer wings, leaving the central core devoted to communal lounge areas on each level, open at both ends so that the sight-line that begins from the flume continues through the building.
A simple neutral palette has been used throughout in order to characterise a rugged simplicity and uncomplicated comfort into which the guests retreat. The untreated rough-sawn hardwood and exposed servicing pipework of the entry and common spaces subtly give way to more refined Tasmanian timber veneer panelling and exposed bent copper plumbing in the suites. These items also allude to the history of the place – the timber formwork of the off-form concrete and water once pumping through the core of the building.
The project has been achieved on an extremely tight budget in a remote location which required a large amount of site servicing and infrastructure. Simple construction techniques were utilised and opportunities for standardisation and prefabrication sought through joinery and fittings. Working within existing enclosures that were originally designed for very different functions, a large amount of effort was spent manipulating the internal spaces to balance private and common spaces.. Significant co-ordination was also required to ensure an efficient structural solutions that worked with the high acoustic performance required for the suites.
from archdaily