Nunawading Community Hub
Nunawading Community Hub
We have sought to create a certain ‘monumentality’, significance and dignity to this important public place and the community values it embodies.
Simple forms
The architecture is conceived with simple forms, each a response to the environmental framework (proportion and scale), while symbiotic to the functional, pragmatic and environmental control requirements.
26 community groups, one facility
The project brings together 26 disparate community groups into a single purpose-built facility, providing for specific community group needs such as the Nunawading Lapidary Club, the Whitehorse Arts Association and the local chapter of the University of the Third Age. A timber lined basketball stadium provides state-of the-art facilities for multiple sports, and a dance hall and function space are designed for multipurpose use. The heritage school building has counselling rooms and large flexible meeting spaces, all with high levels of acoustic treatment and audio-visual equipment. Meals-on-Wheels and a pottery studio occupy the lower level, with dining areas on the upper level opening to the redeveloped landscape and Tunstall Park beyond.
The landscape and oval
The hub includes the surrounding landscape, incorporating the old school oval and school house. The oval has been converted into a new community park overlooking Tunstall Park, located on the traditional land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation.
A place of gathering
Large First Nations’ gatherings were once held here. The Nunawading Community Hub has become a new place of gathering, a place to once again share knowledge.
Explore the interiors of Nunawading Community Hub.
Read more in Insights: Nunawading Community Hub wins at the Architizer A+Awards; fjcstudio wins three of the four awards given to Australian practices at the International Architecture Awards; Nunawading Community Hub receives a Commendation for Public Architecture AIA.
Awards
| 2023 | Chicago Athenaeum, International Architecture Awards | Community Centres category | |
| 2023 | Australian Institute of Architects (Victorian Chapter) | Public Architecture, shortlist | |
Press
| 9 Feb 2024 | gooood | The Nunawading Hub Community Centre by fjcstudio | |
| 17 Aug 2023 | ArchitectureAU | Australian projects recognized in International Architecture Awards | |
| 14 Aug 2023 | e-architect | Nunawading Community Hub, Victoria, Australia | |
| 1 Aug 2023 | Arch2O | Nunawading Community Hub | fjcstudio | |
| 29 Jul 2023 | ArchDaily | Nunawading Community Hub / fjcstudio | |
