After nearly 1.5 years working on this project, we are excited to finally see construction progress to redevelop the Bibra Lake Wetlands Centre into an integrated educational, recreation and rehabilitation precinct. Client: City of CockburnContractor: BE Projects
Feasibility
5 Key steps to creating clever renovation and extension projects
Upgrading your existing facilities/building rather than relocating or completely rebuilding should be the first consideration in any project. The environmental benefits alone can be significant, as can the cost if it is done in a considered manner. Here, we discuss top issues we believe are important in considering any alterations and additions project. What is the big picture? Ask yourself ‘why are we doing this?’, then list off the functional shortcomings that your current facilities have. Just make a list of the functional issues you currently experience and resist the urge to solve the problems with thoughts like ‘if I…
Ballajura Place Hub
SITE were engaged in Mid 2017 by the City of Swan to design, document and administer the Construction Contract for a major upgrade and additions to the existing 1990’s Ballajura Library. The project objectives were to provide a Place Hub where more of the City’s community services could be delivered and to improve the integration of the Library, Community Centre, adjacent Youth Hub, and Aquatic Centre. Our approach was to report on the condition of the existing Library building and consider how the upgrade can address any maintenance items within the project brief. Following the extensive condition audit, it…
Hale Junior School a category winner for Shaw Design Awards!
SITE is excited to find out today that Hale Junior School was a category winner in the recent Shaw Contract Design Awards, and is now in the running for the final category award. This also means we have a chance at the people’s choice award so would be great if you would be willing to share and vote for us. Each entry can be voted for once per day until the 12th July 2019. See below link for voting. https://designawards.shawcontract.com/en-gb/project/hale-junior-school
Successful Master Planning
The beginning of a project can be a very exciting period! Often projects come out of a reaction to a perceived problem where a solution is half determined before the problem is fully understood, ‘critiqued’ or even challenged. This can perpetuate as funding is sought, approvals from relevant personnel are obtained and a kind of consultation with stakeholders is completed. Before too long, there is a ‘brief’ for a building project which then is used to seek engagement of architectural services. As Architects, we often get called in late in this process and get pulled in to the excitement of…
Wungong Town Community Centre and Library Feasibility Study
Element (formerly TPG + Place Match) in partnership with SITE Architecture Studio was engaged by the City of Armadale to provide consultancy services for the feasibility study for a new Library and Community Centre within the Wungong Town Centre. The City identified that the current Armadale Library will outgrow its capacity to deliver community and library services within the existing catchment. Without the additional Library services, the Armadale Library’s catchment population would be exceeded by 2026. The City also recognised that the forecast of Wungong Town population growth warranted a prevision of Library and Community services within the area. SITE…