Winner of Department of Transport Bicycle Parking Design Competition
I want to ride my bicycle ... to the train station. Train stations around Victoria will receive new bicycle facilities where 26 bicycles will be accomodated in open & secure enclosed shelters. Recently won in an invited design competition, the shelters are pre- fabricated components & assembled using all the waste materials to cross brace the structure.
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Parkhill Primary School
Funded by Round 3 of the federal government's Building the Education Revolution for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. This project includes alterations and additions to Parkhill Primary School in Ashwood, Victoria. The design scheme is inspired by Victoria's majestic rivers including the Murray, Goulburn, Latrobe and Yarra. Construction is due to be completed by March 2011.
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Templestowe Reserve Sporting Pavilion
Steve Brennan, President of the Templestowe Football Club has called their new facilities the "Sydney Opera House of sporting pavilions". The project was completed in readiness for the first home game of the Templestowe Dockers. The 100 year history of the football & cricket club as represented by different jumpers & crests are identified in the form & brickwork facades of the building. Seen from the reserve entry the building tries to start a mexican wave to generate match day spectacle. This building includes community & training facilities for the sporting clubs. The building aims to be a carbon & water neutral building.
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Glen Iris Wetlands Education Centre
An entire house will be recycled to construct Stonnington's first environmental hub. Architects working on the sustainable design for the Glen Iris Wetlands Environment Centre have won Stonnington Council's support to buy and cut up a house, and relocate it to TH King Oval in Glen Iris ...
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Flemington Youth Centre
The design is informed by Skinners Playground ... fabricated from old shipping containers, but Ho notes important differences between them. The intended users of the Flemington design, for example, are teenagers and young adults who require services with far more breadth and depth ... Sudanese - Australians can congregate outdoors as they had traditionally ...
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Children's Activity Centre
Here they turn to abandoned shipping containers to create an activity centre for children. Though containers have now become a familiar staple of re-appropriation for all sorts of things, PHOOEY put them to energetic use, stacking them, slicing them, and cutting them to create a thoroughly durable and dignified assemblage that rejoices in the colorful bricolage of its origins.
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Centre for Innovation and Sustainability
The Centre for Innovation and Sustainability forms a three dimensional childrens' book. It is a story about awareness and a demonstration of how to achieve a sustainable future. The building design integrates the Learnscape Masterplan developed many years ago by the students. Each part of the new buildings, existing buildings and gardens within the school become a learnscape and demonstrate something different about our relationship with the environment.
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Port Philip EcoCentre
The existing caretaker's dwelling was transformed into a demonstration sustainable community centre and the first five star energy-rated residential dwelling in Victoria. It includes community meeting spaces, displays of sustainable technology, office, cooking and dining facilities, amenities and community garden. The Port Phillip EcoCentre demonstrates a wide range of sustainable technologies and methods for energy and water efficiency, as an example to both existing and new housing. This includes reducing operational energy; embodied energy; rainwater to black water collection and reuse.
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