Mackey Park Sports Amenities

A robust, playful, L-shaped pavilion meets community needs.

Located on a busy inner city corner, a new amenities building is a gateway to a popular park and sports fields, its form and materiality residential in scale and sympathetic to the urban context.

 

 

The building form is broken into smaller components. A pop up skillion roof opens up tree and sky views bringing natural light to the change rooms. Window hood details diffuse in-coming daylight and allow natural ventilation.

Welcoming generous steel awnings articulate entry points, giving visual permeability to the street. Patterned brickwork on the street-facing facade provides visual interest, breaks up the long “back of house” wall and dissuades anti-social behaviour.

Durable, low maintenance and earthy materials in face brick, painted FC, and steel screens cater to daily use, with construction resistant to occasional flooding. Playful elements include angular masonry bricks and colourful awnings, and there are solar panels, rainwater capture and re-use. Colours reference local rock formations.

Responding to the urban fabric, the pavilion is set back from the road to enhance the much-used pedestrian street pathways, its orientation ensuring sight lines are not obstructed. Its is sensitively nestled amidst soft landscaping, a pocket park and mature trees.

Mackey Park Sports Amenities Gallery

Project info	Details
Team	Sam Crawford, Allen Huang, Sofia Nay, Illiana Jones
Consultants	Engineer – Multidisciplinary: JN Electrical Engineer: Lighting, Art + Science Geotech Engineer: GeoFirst Landscape Architect: Nangle Landscape Architecture Arborist: TreeIQ Section J Consultant: Partners Energy BCA Consultant: AED Consulting Water Services Coor.: Qalchek
Council	Inner West Council
Completion	Ongoing

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