ST MICHAEL PRECINCT | SURRY HILLS | SYDNEY

Designed at SHED

St. Michaels precinct is on the edge Surry Hills bound by 4 streets - Flinders Street, Albion Street, Floods Place and Marys Place. The brief was to upgrade the seating and floor of the Church and provide more space for the Community Hall. The Hall demanded a much larger and more functional kitchen as well as space for a meeting room. The intention was to make the church more welcoming and create an alternative entrance from the rear laneways which doubled up as the meeting room. Our proposal was a simple brick box split up by a series of tall glazed openings. The openings divided by brick piers used a modern interpretation of the "ribbed vault" detail seen in many gothic churches.