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Creeds Farm
Creeds Farm
Epping, Australia
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Creeds Farm
Epping, Australia
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2011
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
The Creeds Farm Living and Learning Centre is a building designed for a multiplicity of community uses on the northern edge of Melbourne’s northern fringe. Located in Epping, this public building is also a demonstration of pragmatic and achievable sustainable design principles addressing opportunities in the generally limited volume builder market. These opportunities range from simple, adjustable external sunshades, or double glazed timber framed window assemblies, or the use of reverse brick veneer, the placement of windows, use of low energy heating systems, photovoltaics, the extensive use of natural timbers and local products, and above all passive design principles. Designed with extensive input from RMIT’s Centre for Design, this simple public building – for demonstration purposes was rated using the NATHERS domestic rating tool – and excelled achieving a rating of 7.4 stars without resorting to reduced window sizes, excessive insulation and minimal external openings.
The complex brief and limited budget necessitated the invention of flexible and adaptable spaces where functions extensively overlap; reflected in the simple sinuous, form whose folds continually re-orient visitors from apparently isolated room to room. This creates a rhythm of purposed yet connected rooms in close proximity, reflecting community needs of purposed yet interconnected spaces that congregate around a central meeting place called the Hub. The landscape reflects the same desire as the interior, expressed as a patchwork of interconnected external rooms arranged to correlate with the internal spaces.
The urban form partially articulates an urban edge and partially extends into its landscape creating a series of semi-enclosed courtyards as a building in a park.
The simple, skillion form of the cross section belies the complex plan, creating a multi-purpose building realising genuine value both in relation to budget and community outcomes through the careful consideration of the complex, ambitious design brief and it’s resolution to a simple yet carefully purposed outcome.
Photographs © Sonia Mangiapane
The complex brief and limited budget necessitated the invention of flexible and adaptable spaces where functions extensively overlap; reflected in the simple sinuous, form whose folds continually re-orient visitors from apparently isolated room to room. This creates a rhythm of purposed yet connected rooms in close proximity, reflecting community needs of purposed yet interconnected spaces that congregate around a central meeting place called the Hub. The landscape reflects the same desire as the interior, expressed as a patchwork of interconnected external rooms arranged to correlate with the internal spaces.
The urban form partially articulates an urban edge and partially extends into its landscape creating a series of semi-enclosed courtyards as a building in a park.
The simple, skillion form of the cross section belies the complex plan, creating a multi-purpose building realising genuine value both in relation to budget and community outcomes through the careful consideration of the complex, ambitious design brief and it’s resolution to a simple yet carefully purposed outcome.
Photographs © Sonia Mangiapane
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