Introduction
This project is a well-being and rehabilitation center in Orange western New South Wales. In Wiradjuri “wala-win” means healthy. The building sits as a pavilion in the evolving community garden, which provides an important learning space for local culture.
Reason to Be Selected
As such, it was important that the building was contextualized with the landscape and facilitated a high level of community ownership.
Highlights:
The center provides complimentary services predominantly for community elders for the Orange Aboriginal Medical Service and costs $1.1 million.Details
The project sought to create a well-being pavilion within the community garden that would be welcoming and facilitate community ownership.A tight budget required an efficient floor plan that maximized usable space. Natural light and familiar materials were important to humanize the building and avoid an institutional feeling.The meaningful engagement with the client and the community underpinned the design process and enabled a deep understanding of the space.
Recommended
The building is designed as a light-filled timber-clad pavilion that sits within the community garden.The lightness of the twisted colorbond roof reinforces its modest and sympathetic intervention into the landscape.Reclaimed brickwork cladding at the entries and for the veranda flooring compliment the timber cladding to create a domestic familiarity and avoid any institutional feel.
The plan is highly efficient to maximize usable space whilst providing natural light and ventilation from at least two directions.This is important to avoid any feeling of claustrophobia and reinforce the ideas of well-being.The timber cladding is Darwin Stringy-bark. An Australian hardwood which is incredibly dense and requires no coatings or surface maintenance.
Conclusions
This will enable the cladding to transition to a silver appearance.The timber is from a sustainable Aboriginal source in Cape York, where it is selectively harvested to ensure the sustainability of the broader environment.
FULL STORY:
| Lat: | 52.13 |
| Lng: | 0.08 |
| Type: | |
| Region: | Oceania |
| Scale: | Building |
| Field: | Facility |
| City: | New South Wales |