Infusions: Studio Intensive investigated an important and strategic site to the west of Sydney’s harbour, close to both the city and harbour foreshore, and currently in a process of redevelopment. The project looked specifically at the still operating Bushells coffee factory on the harbour site in Concord, originally built to produce tea. The monolithic brick building is a key landmark in low-density suburban Concord, and the vertical space of the central tower creates a unique opportunity for a range of adaptative re-use programs that can integrate its powerful vertical mass.

Students worked in groups with a combination of WSU and Waseda students, spending three intensive days developing propositions and models for the site, developing a program and sectional architecture for this tower in both model and drawn form. As well as the emphasis on modelling, students were introduced to processes of printmaking.

The student work focused on the spatial opportunities of this iconic build-ing as well as the historical relationships and patterns of industrialisation in Western Sydney and how these can be preserved and amplified through adaptive re-use.

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Infusions: Studio Intensive investigated an important and strategic site to the west of Sydney’s harbour, close to both the city and harbour foreshore, and currently in a process of redevelopment. The project looked specifically at the still operating Bushells coffee factory on the harbour site in Concord, originally built to produce tea. The monolithic brick building is a key landmark in low-density suburban Concord, and the vertical space of the central tower creates a unique opportunity for a range of adaptative re-use programs that can integrate its powerful vertical mass.

Students worked in groups with a combination of WSU and Waseda students, spending three intensive days developing propositions and models for the site, developing a program and sectional architecture for this tower in both model and drawn form. As well as the emphasis on modelling, students were introduced to processes of printmaking.

The student work focused on the spatial opportunities of this iconic build-ing as well as the historical relationships and patterns of industrialisation in Western Sydney and how these can be preserved and amplified through adaptive re-use.

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