Architecture AND are collaboration with Turner (executive architect), Tribe Studio, Aileen Sage and Yerrabingin on the Marrickville Timberyards project; a landmark mixed use project comprising co-living, build to rent and commercial spaces in Inner City Sydney.

Architecture AND have designed two of seven buildings, including the main gateway building on Victoria Road, and a smaller multi-residential building on Farr Street. The buildings reinterpret the materiality and expression of the industrial precinct.

A large portal punctures the building, providing access from Victoria Road to the core of the site.

The building is designed as a tartan grid, with an interplay of horizontal and vertical elements adjusted to provide visual richness, shading and depth.

The columns comprise a splayed language, opening the apeture from the room to the east, effectively 'borrowing' solar access from the adjacent dwelling.

A small annex is located to the rear of Building D, comprising an intentionally direct architectural expression of engaged brick piers and brick parapet. This directness is intended to recall the understated and nondescript industrial building of the context.

At the core of the site, the steel structure of the Danias Timber warehouse is retained, framing the central landscape space of the site.

Building F, located to the rear of the site on Farr Street, is anchored by a masonry groundplane, with brickwork extending from the base of the building to define adjacent landscape spaces.

The raking form of the upper levels provides transitional massing to the residential context, while presenting a sculpted form and contrasting to the robust expression of the adjacent buildings designed by Tribe Studio.