Pascoe Vale Community Centre

Pascoe Vale Community Centre was commissioned by the City of Moreland to provide accommodation for a broad range of community functions including Maternal and Child Health Care, spaces for adult classes, and dedicated art classrooms. It also includes Kindergarten and Child Care facilities with some protected outdoor play areas.

Spaces have been created within to be used for adaptable and multiple uses with a strong focus on sustainable design, creating a hub designed to cater for people from all walks of life and ethnicities; infants, new mothers, the elderly, disabled and the emerging youth.

We hope to breathe new life into the park and its surrounding facilities. Its high exposure inspired us to feature two diverging prisms as the centre’s main form, providing a unique and responsive spectacle to the passer bye – no angle provides the same visual outcome. Its prominent structure arouses images of welcoming and beckoning arms, enticing observers to further explore the Centre and its surroundings.

Further, its two slender forms allows the centre to stretch across the site, blending architecture and landscape. Design workshops with the various stakeholders led to a narrative about expressing diversity in colour. Through the design process, colour and materiality has been explored to decorate, illuminate its spaces, and to tell a story about the complex and diverse community life the facility supports as opposed to a sterile civic building stripped of colour.