Lizard Log Amenities: A Park Built to Patina

Location
Parramatta, NSW, Australia
Year
2009-2012
Status
Completed
Filed under
PublicUrban

Designed in collaboration with McGregor Coxall, this much-awarded project called for a new playground, amenities blocks, event space with adjoining events pavilion, car parking, shade and BBQ facilities.

The park design was a response to the scale and character of the greater site context with a strong environmental agenda. The amenities buildings and shelters were driven by an adaptive design response to the existing structures on the site. Rather than demolishing the existing structures the new designs continue the tectonic language and introduce robust materials that age and patina over time.

Lizard Log Amenities site plan.Lizard Log Amenities site plan.
The roof is elegantly decoupled from the amenities pods below it.
Photography by Brett Boardman.The roof is elegantly decoupled from the amenities pods below it. Photography by Brett Boardman.
Building and landscaping bleed into one another.
Photography by Brett Boardman.Building and landscaping bleed into one another. Photography by Brett Boardman.
The event pavilion.
Photography by Simon Whitbread.The event pavilion. Photography by Simon Whitbread.
A communal washbasin greets you upon entry.
Photography by Brett Boardman.A communal washbasin greets you upon entry. Photography by Brett Boardman.
A lightweight timber and steel roof floats over the landscape.
Photography by Brett Boardman.A lightweight timber and steel roof floats over the landscape. Photography by Brett Boardman.

The Events Space Building is a multi functional pavilion and forms part of an ensemble of amenities and shade structures which are distributed throughout the park. The building provides a back drop to the major events space within the park and continues the language of the other park structures through materiality and detail.

The events pavilion plan.The events pavilion plan.
Refined gutter detail.
Photography by Brett BoardmanRefined gutter detail. Photography by Brett Boardman
Lizard Log Amenities.
Photography by Simon Whitbread.Lizard Log Amenities. Photography by Simon Whitbread.

Credits

Architect
Completed at CHROFI
Client
Western Sydney Parklands Trust
Engineer
Northrop Engineering
Builder
Timber Creations
Landscape
McGregor Coxall
Photography
Brett Boardman, Simon Whitbread

Awards

Nicholas Murcutt Award for Small Project Architecture
AIA National Awards
2017
Winner
Australian Institute of Architects NSW Awards - Steel Architecture
2017
Winner
Australian Institute of Architects NSW Awards - Public Architecture
2017
Winner (Overall Park)
AILA Premier's Peoples Choice Award
2012
Winner
Australian Institute of Architects NSW, Geberit Award
2011

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