Broadwater Parklands Stage 2

The design team for The Hub's contemporary and sustainable pavilions worked as part of a collaborative consultant team to ensure the compound met and enhanced the design intent of the original park masterplan. Conceptually, the buildings are envisaged as a series of forms rising up out of the landscape, making integration with the landscape consultant and the structural and services engineers, critical to the success of the project.

A flexible administration and maintenance compound located at the entry to the recently completed Broadwater Parklands, the buildings are respectfully located to relate to the nearby heritage-listed Bathing Pavilion (recently refurbished). To meet both the constraints of the budget and the need to provide a strong sense of civic presence, a highly efficient and standardised approach to construction was adopted.

The buildings contribute positively to the public domain as a series of pavilion forms, active on all sides and presenting vibrant and articulated edges to the parkland and highway interfaces. The built forms are conceived as a continuation of the parkland architecture developed in Stage 1 and as such, emphasise similar architectural concepts through permeability, motif abstractions and buildings as landscape forms.

The native Pandanus Palm has been abstracted into a large scale motif and applied to the internal face of the translucent cladding. This motif appears as a soft, ghosted film during the day and a vibrant silhouette after dark, creating an entry statement for the park in the form of shards of light rising out of the landscape.

The site's numerous environmental initiatives include water polishing systems that receive the compound and surrounding stormwater runoff, maximised access to natural light through excellent solar orientation, water harvesting for reuse in the buildings and maintenance wash down areas, and retaining all existing significant site vegetation.