COOGEE COMMUNITY CENTRE
DAVID McCALLUM
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3187729
The design for the Coogee Community Centre deals primarily with its insertion into the site, its alignment and misalignment within its context, and its definition and delineation of areas within the site.
Within the convoluted and confused landscape of the Eastern Suburbs, the centre re-aligns itself nine point seven degrees to face directly north. It becomes a social anchor mark of directionality and a Cartesian reference point within the area, while its alignment also approaches and opens up a diagonally centred cross-site sequence of open, green spaces within the crowded urban grid.
The construction of the centre also references the historic materiality of the area - sandstone masonry, brick and timber construction - and creates the impression of the archetype of a 'beach pavilion'. The historic elements of the site are retained, with a strong sense of the 'newly inserted' forms within them, and the terrain is revived with a timber-decked 'landscape' roof to the centre, referencing the area's materiality and the social event of watching sports in the outdoors.
Within the convoluted and confused landscape of the Eastern Suburbs, the centre re-aligns itself nine point seven degrees to face directly north. It becomes a social anchor mark of directionality and a Cartesian reference point within the area, while its alignment also approaches and opens up a diagonally centred cross-site sequence of open, green spaces within the crowded urban grid.
The construction of the centre also references the historic materiality of the area - sandstone masonry, brick and timber construction - and creates the impression of the archetype of a 'beach pavilion'. The historic elements of the site are retained, with a strong sense of the 'newly inserted' forms within them, and the terrain is revived with a timber-decked 'landscape' roof to the centre, referencing the area's materiality and the social event of watching sports in the outdoors.
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