Conveniently located in Auburn Village, Newburgh Light House is a 10 level urban infill apartment building, squeezed onto a highly constrained 150-square-metre site.

By infilling a shop’s backyard, and fitting up to 21 bedrooms directly adjacent to a historic train station, this mini tower typology provides a highly sustainable approach to help address urban sprawl.

While simple and elegant in outcome, these spacious apartments required some highly technical solutions to overcome the site’s constraints. Issues of buildability, access, fire, acoustic and future daylight protection determined much of the architectural language and layout. The resultant technical solutions were curated architecturally to create a beautiful light filled building that sparkles internally throughout the day and illuminates like a soft lantern from the train station at night.

Photography: Timothy Kaye