When the City of Kingston commissioned CO.OP Studio to design what would become the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken by the council, the design team inherited a mandate defined not by a single visionary client but by an entire suburb’s worth of competing expectations.
The site at 76 Governor Road in Mordialloc, adjacent to Jack Grut Reserve in Melbourne’s south-east, had been selected from 180 potential locations.
The programme had already been defined: a 50-metre lap pool, a learn-to-swim pool, a warm-water exercise pool, a leisure pool, spa, sauna, steam room, gym, café, and changing village.
The $87.5 million all-electric facility, jointly funded by the City of Kingston and the Australian Government, was already a civic commitment before it was a building. What it still needed was a way to be seen.
ZOA Studio was brought in to produce a hero render of the entrance and a one-minute animation.