PROJECT OVERVIEW

Complete: 2009
Cost: £60m approx
Size: 450 apartments

Client Brief

A large scale 450 plus apartments scheme centred around Abercorn Basin to the back of the Odyssey Complex, in Titanic Quarter. With various in size of units on upper floors and bars and cafes to the ground floor. Each apartment has car parking accessed off a new road infrastructure and surrounded by new public realm space to Abercorn Basin.

Design Solution

The ‘Arc’: The Architectural concept was conceived as a series of curved buildings centred and focused on a reformed Abercorn Basin using a curved geometry were each building effectively became an the ‘Arc’ radiating from the centre of the natural water course. The ‘Arc’ also served as an abbreviation for the Abercorn Residential Complex. The concept builds on the scale of the adjacent Odyssey Complex of six storeys in scale stepping up to ten and twelve storeys to create a variation on height ultimately leading on to a phase two and concluding in landmark apartment tower on the edge of the Waterfront. The design includes an open landscaped internal street together with open and closed balconies to all apartments to take advantage of the views over the River Lagan.

Robinson McIlwaine acting as Lead Architect in the Design Team managed by the client’s projectmanagement team and to be procured through a traditional tendering procedure. It is hoped to tender to the Project in mid 2006.

Client Feedback

Initial client feedback has been extremely positive to the modern and high quality strong architectural design concept in a reawakened apartment market in a changing Belfast.

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