Rather than playing a side note to the architecture, the landscape at Rozelle Village conceived by Scott Carver’s landscape architects, brings an elevated luxury to the development, creating green spaces for an array of uses from rooftop yoga, to celebratory special occasion dining, to powered work-from-home pods, all while capturing stunning harbour views – there’s even a pet friendly garden.
Green spaces become all the more important in apartment living which is why Scott Carver incorporated no less than five ‘resident gardens’ available to all residents at Rozelle Village – three on the level 10 rooftops with stunning city and district views, as well as a selection of private terraces, some with plunge pools.
Each garden has its own ‘personality’ too; vibrant and social, intimate and quiet, adaptable and everyday.
Scott Carver’s Director of Landscape Architecture Esther Dickins has led the creation of these diverse green spaces, cultivating them to support modern lifestyles.
“It’s getting harder to draw the line between buildings and outdoor space – and that’s a trajectory that’s very clear at Rozelle Village. People want to spend time in indoor/outdoor spaces, where you can step outside to take your lunch in the sun, or work from a courtyard,” she said.
Beautifully furnished, covered cabanas, for example, mean residents can take work from home into the outdoors in The Terraces, a lushly landscaped garden on Level 1. Dickins notes that the same spaces can also be used for a meeting, a casual get together or a kids’ birthday party.
Extending the indoors out
The ethos of extending the indoors out is perhaps most evident in the penthouses, where private terraces with kitchens, plunge pools and entertaining spaces act as lifestyle accents to truly breathtaking view lines.
As Esther says, “There’s something very Sydney about it. Living here, we expect to be connected to the open air, lands and waters. And with the views the Village has,
we could not pass up the opportunity to offer something truly extraordinary on the roof: it would have been a waste not to.”
The roof gardens have an added benefit of allowing all residents to enjoy views of the city from every angle, in addition to their own private aspects from their homes.
“The view lines are one of the real benefits of apartment living that you don’t get with a house, particularly in Rozelle, where dense housing means only those directly on the waterfront can see the harbour. Across the peninsula there wasn’t a lot of space left over for small parks or gardens, here we are able to provide generous green spaces” she said.
There’s even a pet friendly rooftop for dog owners, outdoor kitchens, outdoor fitness and yoga, a communal veggie patch and social seating pods.
As they mature over the seasons, Rozelle Village’s gardens and public domain will feel like they’ve always been there. Jacarandas and deciduous trees will carry the ambience of Rozelle’s much loved laneways into the Village Square and through its Darling Street entrance.
Meanwhile, natives will reign above in the verdure of the roof gardens and green walls, welcoming residents’ home to leaf-fringed views and a building softened by greenery.
To register for interest please visit rozellevillage.com.au or call CBRE Residential Projects on 1800 739 772.
