Gadigal
NSW
The existing Pyrmont Community Centre hosted over fifty community programs, including long daycare and after school care. With Pyrmont’s population expected to increase by 41% over the next 16 years, the need to increase the size of the centre was as imperative to meet the anticipated future demand.
Community groups requested additional space at the centre to accommodate increasing community demand for services. The new Centre provides additional hire spaces and improved accessibility, with a lift, an upgrade and expansion of the showers and toilet amenities a new Gym area, the refurbishment of the heritage spaces, and an upgrading of the outside school hours care facilities and courtyard play equipment.
Welsh and Major, in partnership with The City have delivered an important investment into our community portfolio and provided future generations with the opportunity to utilise new contemporary facilities and enriched heritage spaces.
The modifications to the Pyrmont Community Centre commence with a robust but highly detailed presentation of the entry with an expressive and meticulously executed facade that allows engagement into the building, while delivering natural light deep into the spaces within. A newly organised and glazed circulation zone serves to offset the new spaces respectfully from the original structures while seamlessly and intuitively connecting the various functions within the centre. A rich material palette develops within, with each space afforded its own identifying composition to suit the functions accommodated. Ìý
The result is a design that is as much about the careful restoration and remediation to the original 1880s buildings, as it is the careful interventions that overlay new and exciting spaces that exceed the community expectations for a modern community centre. Ìý
Community groups requested additional space at the centre to accommodate increasing community demand for services. A scope of work was developed to provide additional hire spaces and improved accessibility, with a lift, an upgrade and expansion of the showers and toilet amenities a new Gym area, the refurbishment of the heritage spaces, and an upgrading of the outside school hours care facilities and courtyard play equipment.
Welsh and Major, in partnership with The City have delivered an important investment into our community portfolio and provided future generations with the opportunity to utilise new contemporary facilities and enriched heritage spaces.
Andrew Short, Project Lead
Felicity May, Graduate of Architecture
Matt Walker, Student of Architecture
Zoe Lu, Graduate of Architecture
David Welsh, Project Director
Chris Major, Director
Urbis, Heritage Consultant
Cantilever, Structural Engineer
Lighting Art and Science, Electrical Consultant
Egis, Services Consultant
Northrop, Hydraulic Consultant
Acoustic Dynamics, Acoustic Consultant
BM+G, BCA and DDA consultants
LPDS, Town Planner
Inhabit, ESD Consultant
Muller, Quantity Surveyor
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