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Warrumbungle National Park Visitor Centre
Warrumbungle National Park Visitor Centre
Coonabarabran, Australia
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Warrumbungle National Park Visitor Centre
Coonabarabran, Australia
Replacing a visitors centre lost to bushfires in January 2013, this new facility is a dramatic response to the landscape setting and cultural heritage of the Warrumbungle National Park, located 35km west of Coonabarabran in regional NSW.
Commencing with a series of broad concepts that purposefully considered the landscape opportunities a new centre offered the park, key drivers for the site planning included maximising
and celebrating the signature views of the Grand High Tops, retention of natural vegetation and rock formations and
clear visibility of the new centre for an improved visitor experience. The design delivers a series of outdoor spaces
for visitor engagement, education and quiet contemplation that respond to the unique setting of the Park. Accommodating a wide range of visitor amenities, the new centre is both a practical hub for park users to organise acco modation, register prior to undertaking longer walks and obtain visitor information sheets and maps. It is also an interactive exhibition
space where stories of the park are told and interpreted. Themes of geology, astronomy and indigenous connections
are all part of the drama of the interior spaces. Critically, the main space provides unobstructed views of the iconic formations of the ‘Breadknife’ and ‘ Belougery Spire’.
Architecturally, the centre interprets the geology of the place through the key concept of fracture – whereby the geology of the Warrumbungles is overtly referenced in the overall form of the building. With powerful curving walls clad in stone, the building celebrates the iconic volcanic dykes and rock formations of the Park. These walls are used to guide visitors to the heart of the centre and provide a protective and embracing start to the visitor experience of the Park.
Commencing with a series of broad concepts that purposefully considered the landscape opportunities a new centre offered the park, key drivers for the site planning included maximising
and celebrating the signature views of the Grand High Tops, retention of natural vegetation and rock formations and
clear visibility of the new centre for an improved visitor experience. The design delivers a series of outdoor spaces
for visitor engagement, education and quiet contemplation that respond to the unique setting of the Park. Accommodating a wide range of visitor amenities, the new centre is both a practical hub for park users to organise acco modation, register prior to undertaking longer walks and obtain visitor information sheets and maps. It is also an interactive exhibition
space where stories of the park are told and interpreted. Themes of geology, astronomy and indigenous connections
are all part of the drama of the interior spaces. Critically, the main space provides unobstructed views of the iconic formations of the ‘Breadknife’ and ‘ Belougery Spire’.
Architecturally, the centre interprets the geology of the place through the key concept of fracture – whereby the geology of the Warrumbungles is overtly referenced in the overall form of the building. With powerful curving walls clad in stone, the building celebrates the iconic volcanic dykes and rock formations of the Park. These walls are used to guide visitors to the heart of the centre and provide a protective and embracing start to the visitor experience of the Park.
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