Kooloora Community Centre / Malabar, NSW

A multi-purpose community facility for the NSW Department of Housing on one of the Department’s large housing estates in south east Sydney.  The facility is sited to address the street on a large open space/parkland surrounded by medium density low income housing.

The facility by budget and program needed to be small and inviting to the community, yet needed a degree of formality to avoid being lost on the large open space that was the site.  A formal colonnade, free standing,  addressing the street, expanded the visual presence of the small building and created a form of forecourt to the buildings entry.