Hills Showground Village – Placemaking
Showgrounds Village is inspired by the natural rhythms of nearby Cattai Creek, translating its movement and materiality into a cohesive placemaking experience.
Introduction
Flowing forms across the flooring and ceiling emulate the creek’s movement, intuitively guiding people through the space. Green elements within furniture and framed sightlines reference surrounding foliage, reinforcing a connection to the landscape.
Project
Hills Showground Village – Placemaking
Client
Deicorp
Date
2019 - Ongoing
Site area
7,969 sqm
Location
Castle Hill, NSW
Indigenous Country
Burramattagal - Dharug Nation
GFA Residential
40,755 sqm
GFA Non-residential
10,310 sqm
Apartments
430
The Hills Showground Village is a key part of the future vision for the Hills Showgrounds Station Precinct. As a mixed-use development, it delivers 430 apartments, a publicly accessible plaza, and a mix of retail and commercial spaces.
The success of the mixed-use development will be driven by the meaningful activation of the new streetscapes with fine-grain retail and a new parkside dining precinct.
Landscaping is a key component of the project with generous landscaped open areas within the public domain, podium courtyard, and communal rooftop terraces.
Internally the proposal includes a 3-story retail podium with a light-filled ‘market hall’ like interior, connecting key street nodes from the metro to the adjacent Showgrounds.
Collectively this will form the active heart of the wider precinct, connecting the existing and future communities.
Materiality draws from the bark of native eucalyptus, grounding the precinct in a local, textural palette. This extends into public art and signage, where the idea of sap
is expressed through layered, fluid elements, creating a unifying thread of growth and connection.
The colours within the architecture reflect those of local endemic plant species such as the Gravillea Hills Jubilee. There is a strong emphasise on the visual connection to the adjacent Showgrounds.
Meet the team
