Alexandria Liquor Barn
Architectural in Sydney

Architecture, sustainability, urban planning, master planning smith & tzannes is a sydney based architecture and urban planning practice directed by peter smith and andrew tzannes. Buildings and the spaces between them should create memorable experiences, where by the play of light and shade, use of texture and colour can tantalise the senses of the inhabitant. We believe a sustainable built environment should enrich peoples lives and add quality to the communities it serves. Smith and tzannes foster a collaborative approach promoting client 'ownership' of the design throughout the entire project. While relying on a degree of experience has been essential, it is the success of these relationships that has enabled the devising of individual solutions. They deliver projects that are responsible to the specifics of a site - its physical and cultural contexts, and the program - as a result of the close relationship established with each of our clients. It is their ability to find simple and beautiful solutions that work at multiple levels as a result of detailed analysis and lateral thought that characterises the work of the practice. Their commissions are varied and include single dwellings, civic and community places and strategic urban planning, multi-dwelling developments, urban design and statutory planning.

Smith Tzannes is an architecture and urban planning practice. Andrew is the design director at Smith Tzannes and combines excellence in architectural detail design with project management experience. With more than fifteen years postgraduate experience in architectural practice in Australia and the UK, Penelope has participated in design, design development, and documentation of individual houses, commercial, industrial, housing, public, urban design and heritage projects. At Smith Tzannes, Penelope has been involved in projects at all scales from housing through to urban and public projects. They will also be included in the calculation of greatest floor area allowed on a site, along with the floor area of the dwelling house, any detached studio and any lesser dwelling on the site. Fresh setback standards will require buildings to be located at least 3m from protected trees which are being retained on the lot. When applying for a complying development certificate, there are a number of new supporting documents that may be needed to be lodged with the application, depending on the type of proposed development. This code allows for alterations and the change of use to existing and commercial industrial buildings. Development that requires clearing of more than 1,00 m of native vegetation cannot be complying development lower the code. Privacy requirements apply when adjacent to residential zones. The site was re mediated however zoning essentially permitted only single residential dwellings. The building contains two levels of commercial and 7 apartments. Smith Tzannes designed a display house to demonstrate superior practice environmental design and design for bush fire prone areas and provide a benchmark for the standard of architecture desired. The proposed building form respects the existing and proposed urban form by defining the public space with a street wall along Goddard and Eve Street. This provides solar access to the unfold space and to the rear of the buildings on the site behind. The outdoor space is seen as an extension of the community facilities and events occurring within the center. Where a DC contains standards which apply to a development and a development does not comply with those standards, the DC must be applied flexibly to allow reasonable alternative solutions that achieve the objective of the standards in the DC. It allows applicants who confront specific planning and design standards to apply for a 10day approval as complying development. If the development is carried out complying with these controls then it should be complying or immune development. The work of the practice is characterized by luxurious solutions that result from a thoughtful design based approach developed out of a accessible relationship with our clients and an accepting of the environment and human experience. We create places and spaces people will enjoy. They profit from our different experience as we resolve the planning, design, construction, and environmental performance issues with considered and feasible solutions. Our clients gain form the experience of our urban planning team who have worked in both state and local government. An accepting of the clients needs and objectives, and hard management and direction are crucial in providing lofty quality design solutions.