{"id":6086,"date":"2017-04-21T09:44:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T23:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/?page_id=6086"},"modified":"2017-07-11T09:51:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T23:51:01","slug":"lady-gowrie-tasmania-integrated-centre-for-children-families","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/2017-awards\/2017-education\/lady-gowrie-tasmania-integrated-centre-for-children-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gowrie Tasmania Integrated Centre for Children &amp; Families"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h1>Lady Gowrie Tasmania Integrated Centre for Children &amp; Families<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This project responds to an integrated model of child care, education and community, creating flexible indoor and outdoor play spaces and blurring the boundaries of age to create a play terrain across an inner-city industrial site. The project rehabilitated a brownfield site previously occupied by a mechanics workshop, of which the raw materiality, utilitarian scale and residual automotive insignia has been playfully incorporated into the final design.<\/p>\n<p>Various functions are collected around the vertical circulation and breakout spaces, encouraging informal encounters and fostering learning opportunities for both children and adults. Formally, this is characterised by voids that&nbsp;allow views and passive observation, provide changing light conditions and incorporate tiered seating and flexible working environments. The entry, conceived as an elevated timber volume cantilevered over a concrete core, was designed to weather with time and, like the warehouse before, to be robust enough to proudly wear its use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Architects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cumulus.studio\/\">Cumulus Studio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Practice Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director and principal architect \u2013 Peter Walker<\/p>\n<p>Director and principal architect \u2013 Todd Henderson<\/p>\n<p>Architect \u2013 Elizabeth Walsh<\/p>\n<p>Architect \u2013 Chris Roberts<\/p>\n<p>Architect \u2013 Andrew Geeves<\/p>\n<p>Interior designer \u2013 Samantha Beavis<\/p>\n<p>Designer \u2013 Jo Churchill<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consultants&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Builder \u2013&nbsp;Fairbrother<\/p>\n<p>Building surveyor \u2013&nbsp;Green Building Surveying<\/p>\n<p>Landscape consultant \u2013&nbsp;Playstreet<\/p>\n<p>Structural, civil and hydraulic engineers &nbsp;\u2013 Aldanmark Consulting Engineers<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical and electrical engineers \u2013&nbsp;TBS Engineering<\/p>\n<p>ESD consultant \u2013&nbsp;RED Energy Consultants<\/p>\n<p>Traffic engineers \u2013&nbsp;pitt&amp;sherry<\/p>\n<p>Artwork \u2013&nbsp;Judith Abell<\/p>\n<p>Graphic design \u2013&nbsp;Futago<\/p>\n<p>Photographer \u2013&nbsp;Nina Hamilton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Categories<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/2017-awards\/2017-commercial-architecture\/\">Commercial Architecture<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/2017-awards\/2017-education\/\">Education<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/2017-awards\/2017-heritage\/\">Heritage<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/2017-awards\/2017-interior-architecture\/\">Interior Architecture<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/2017-awards\/2017-public-architecture\/\">Public Architecture<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/2017-awards\/2017-residential-architecture-houses-alts\/\">Residential Architecture \u2013 Houses (Alterations &amp; Additions)<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/2017-awards\/2017-residential-architecture-houses-new\/\">Residential Architecture \u2013 Houses (New)<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/2017-awards\/2017-small-project-architecture\/\">Small Project Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; order_by=&#8221;sortorder&#8221; order_direction=&#8221;ASC&#8221; returns=&#8221;included&#8221; maximum_entity_count=&#8221;500&#8243;] &nbsp; &nbsp; Lady Gowrie Tasmania Integrated Centre for Children &amp; Families &nbsp; This project responds to an integrated model of child care, education and community, creating flexible indoor and outdoor play spaces and blurring the boundaries of age to create a play terrain across an inner-city industrial site. 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