Fleurieu Regional Aquatic Centre by Hames Sharley is a community sport, health and recreation facility for the Southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia.
The project is useful because it combines public health, leisure, regional identity, stakeholder management and local material thinking in one facility.
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What the project includes
Hames Sharley, working with DWP Suters, led a multi-discipline team for the centre. The project serves growing communities from Victor Harbor to Goolwa and sits at Hayborough in South Australia.
The programme includes an eight-lane 25 metre lap pool, warm water rehabilitation pool, leisure and learn-to-swim pool, outdoor splash pad, fitness facility, creche, kiosk and management spaces.
Why the place-based idea matters
- The design responds to local topography and regional community need.
- The concept draws on the local Indigenous story of Kondili the whale.
- Local materials and skills support the idea that the building should be of its place.
- The project manages public-sector, community and funding complexity while delivering a practical health and recreation asset.
Project lesson
Community facilities need more than a good programme list. The architecture has to make the building welcoming, durable, easy to operate and meaningful to the place it serves.
Feature a community leisure project
Architecture Social project features are strongest when public value, programme and design response are easy to understand.
- Explain who the facility serves.
- Show the operational and social programme.
- Connect material and form to the local context.
Architecture Social view
Stephen’s recruiter view is that community and leisure projects are strong portfolio evidence when they show complexity. Stakeholders, operations, social value and place all matter.
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