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fjcstudio-Nunawading Community Hub
"This white, seamless backdrop celebrates people and their creativity, their activity, and their sense of togetherness. It celebrates the highly valued park and school building, integral to the memories and future lives of Nunawading’s community." | An open and inviting public place, expressing a sense of equitable access for all
The Nunawading Hub Community Centre is located on the old Nunawading Primary School site. The new community center is designed with a variety of spaces to learn, meet and collaborate, offering different indoor and outdoor environments, and catering to different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The hub includes the surrounding landscape, incorporating the old school oval and schoolhouse. The oval has been converted into a new community park overlooking Tunstall Park, located on the traditional land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation.
Large First Nations gatherings were once held here. The Nunawading Community Hub has become a new place of gathering, a place to once again share knowledge. Retaining the heritage schoolhouse, located at the threshold of the site, was a key design objective. By retaining the local materiality it celebrates the collective memory of many who spent their childhood there. The heritage school building offers smaller-scale counseling rooms and large flexible meeting spaces, all with high levels of acoustic privacy. Meals-on-Wheels and a pottery studio occupy the lower level of the new building, with dining areas on the upper level open to the redeveloped landscape and Tunstall Park.
from arhdaily