Design Proposal

The Aboriginal Cultural Centre’s emphasis is on the landscape, including outdoor artefact display, nature walk path, salt water pond and a mangrove regenaration. (60% of the total usage area)

The building is composed of 3 parts : Block A, entrance to reception lobby where the ticketing office and retail outlets are located. This section of the building aims to express the Aboriginal creative imagination as a visual and symbolic expression of their perceptions of the world.

Block B is an open theatre within the landscaping and leads to a salt water pond, the courtyard and Block C. Block C is an elongated, tropical, light weigh, elevated building, facing the Broadwater, containing the gallery, restaurants and café. Interior space is open and simple, using natural materials to blend into the landscaping.

Building structure & detail

FINISHES FOR BUILDING (BLOCK A): ENTERIOR - COMBINATION OF TIMBER & CONCRETE INTERIOR - PLASTER WALL, TIMBER FLOORING

Environment - The way human beings see themselves in relation to nature is fundamental to all cultures ; thus the first fact of architecture is the natural world , the second is the relationshipn of human structures to the topography of the world, and the third is the relationship of all these structures to each other, comprising the human community as a whole.

-Vincent Scully, Architecture : the Natural and the Man-made.