Victoria & Vine is a New York inspired development in Collingwood, Melbourne, designed by Cox Architecture and constructed by Hickory.
As a premium development product selections needed to reflect the quality of the entire project. Ensuring the drainage requirements of all bathrooms within the 241 apartments are perfectly met on an aesthetic level as well as a performance level requires attention due to the high detail specifications within this project. Another important element that needed to be considered was the overall service and a production schedule as it needed to fit into this exceptionally tight construction timeline.
In all construction projects there are minor variations. Rooms are rarely laid out within 0.5 mm of the exact planned dimensions, doing so would be near impossible just to allow for the perfect fit of an off the shelf product, such as a shower channel. Even if this is achieved the designer would have to detail the exact finished dimension of the room at the detailing stage. Wall build-up of linings, membrane, tiles and adhesives would have to be determined perfectly to avoid a huge make up of silicone, or requiring the tiler to squeeze in a channel that is made too large. The logical solution is to select a supplier that can fabricate the channels perfectly to suit the area in each individual shower, this provides the modern appeal of a wall-to-wall channel while navigating the challenges of making an off the shelf product fit. Another consideration would be the location of the outlet. In large multi-level projects, there are often structural elements or other services preventing a channel from having a centre outlet. Selecting a custom channel allows for the outlet to be located at a point where a floor waste gully can be installed for ease of piping out, or to suit pre-installed passive fire protection. Products will often need to be made-to-measure on projects that prioritise a high-end finish.
Cox Architecture and Hickory are well established companies with a wealth of high-end projects in their portfolios. Experience has given them a grounded perspective on how product and supplier selections can add value to project processes, with service and quality ranked highly. This was a key factor in Cox Architecture and Hickory’s selection of Allproof Vision shower channels. Cox Architecture and Hickory have “been dealing with Allproof for a long time and it made sense to use them again especially with the service we get”, Yianni Psihogos, Project Coordinator at Hickory.
Allproof provided all required install details along with product training and technical details. Almost 400 shower channels were supplied in phases, measurements were provided to Allproof once Hickory completed the tiling in a sequence of rooms. Allproof manufactured the channels to these specs, thoroughly checked them through a rigorous Q&A process before clearly labelling each channel with its reference and delivering to site for installation.
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