Marsden Park Amenities: An Anchor for a New Community
- Location
- Marsden Park, NSW, Australia
- Year
- 2014 - 2019
- Status
- Completed
- Filed under
- PublicUrban
Marsden Park Amenities provides change rooms for sports teams, a covered outdoor community space, a small kiosk and public toilet facilities for a new suburban community in Marsden Park. We explored the idea of a structure that creates a unique spatial character internally, while becoming an abstract, recessive landscape element externally.

New communal change rooms for Marsden Park. A private yet seemingly open and light space.
Photography by Clinton Weaver.
An orange mesh canopy stretches over the grounded cylindrical forms.
Photography by Clinton Weaver.In many ways, the project’s architecture is expressed in the negative volume between the canopy and the ground plane. A raw structure, direct and straightforward in its tectonic expression yet ephemeral and playful in its spatial character.
A tectonic yet playful presence.
Photography by Clinton Weaver.
Column details.
Photography by Ben Hosking.
Gutter details.
Photography by Ben Hosking.
It is a structure that aims to embody a civic quality through its inverse form, serving as an anchor point for a new local community. This structure aims to provide more than just shelter and utilitarian amenity, but also an element of joy and delight.
Fluted concrete detailing.
Photography by Ben Hosking.
The mesh canopy dips down to merge with the steel columns.
Photography by Clinton Weaver.
Marsden Park Amenities.
Photography by Clinton Weaver.Credits
- Architect
- Completed at CHROFI
- Client
- Stockland
- Engineer
- SDA Structures
- Builder
- Glascott
- Landscape
- JMD Design
- Photography
- Clinton Weaver, Ben Hosking
Awards
- Commendation
- Australian Institute of Architects National Awards - Small Project Architecture
- 2020
- Winner
- Australian Institute of Architects NSW, Robert Woodward Award - Small Project Architecture
- 2020
