HLC Elevation apartments, northcote

TLC Modular is developing two 6-storey apartment buildings using its proprietary modular building system, on two adjacent sites in Northcote, Auckland. When completed, there will be a total of 183 apartments, in a mix of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments, added to the residential offering stock in Auckland, 79 in one building and 104 in the other.

Both buildings feature a concrete basement carpark and ground level podium which will receive the modular building system making up the apartments. TLC Modular is developing the sites in partnership with Kainga Ora; as such 40% of the apartments are Kiwibuild and 60% are Market apartments. The apartments are designed to achieve Homestar 6 requirements.

The external façade cladding system consists of a mixture of the customised Kaneba Cassette Cladding system for TLC Modular with solid aluminium panels, Dimondek 400 Cladding and aluminium fins.

The design and construction methodology has been split into 4 stages:

Stage 1: conventional in-situ basement and podium construction.
Stage 2: prefinished prefabricated premanufactured building components forming the superstructure including fit-out and part enclosure.
Stage 3: Conventional construction for completion of the enclosure (roof and façade).
Stage 4: External

A staged consent strategy has been adopted, aligned with the design and construction stages.

CREATE is engaged for the overall architecture review and construction observation.

Images (artists impression) provided by TLC.

Project Details:

Client: TLC Contractors
Location: Northcote, Auckland
Role: Architecture - Design Review, Building Consent & Construction Observations
Status: Modules arriving in NZ, construction commenced on site

Key Personnel:

Bryan Greig (Director): Project Director, Oversight
Abdus Hansrod (Director): Project Lead, Reviewing and Consent Architect, and Construction Observation
Jonathan Lim (Architectural Graduate): Architectural Review Support

Client Representative:

Jeremy Wagon
NZ General Manager