SITE was engaged by the Department of Finance to design a facility to replace existing Science transportables at Eaton Community College, south of Perth. The brief included: 4 General Science Labs, 2 dedicated Chemistry Labs, Staff and Preparation Areas, located on the existing middle school hard courts. Through SITE’s process of Understanding, we began the process with a deep enquiry with key staff to discover the site context, values, and educational vision unique to Eaton Community College which we could draw upon to inform the design. Two values emerged. Diversity – Eaton Community College opened originally as a Middle School…
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Feature Project: Baldivis District Sports Complex
SITE was commissioned for the Baldivis District Sports Complex (BDSC) by the City of Rockingham in mid-2019 following the completion of a masterplan prepared by Hames Sharley. The sport and recreation open space included multiple playing fields serviced by the following facilities: 4 Court Indoor Recreation Centre with 3 Multi-purpose function rooms and Café. A District level Sports Pavilion with social space, bar/kiosk, administration spaces, change rooms and storage, as well as City administration offices. A Junior Pavilion, with small social space, kiosk, administration, and amenities for Junior Sports. A Maintenance facility to house equipment and operations to service…
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…
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…
The advantages of engaging architects early
As we roll into 2019 we have reflected on our 10 years in practice as Site Architecture Studio, what we have achieved and the lessons we have learned along the way. We have completed a variety of community, education, commercial and residential projects with a diverse range of public organisations and private clients, yet the stand out successful projects for us, are for clients who understood the benefits of early engagement of Site Architecture Studio in the project process. Often, there is a perception that we only need architects when we know what we want to do and how we…