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Port Hedland Multi-Purpose Recreation Centre

Port Hedland
WA AUS
   

 

Client: Town of Port Hedland
PROJECT Value: $35M

      

 

 

 

 
 

ARM Architecture's Perth studio are pleased to showcase our latest project under construction - the new Mutipurpose Recreation Center for the Town of Port Hedland.

  

PORT HEDLAND mprc
CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION
dEC 2011

  
             
 

The project site is located at the Kevin Scott Oval on the fringe of South Hedland’s flood plain. It is a significant destination for major sports and social gatherings for the local community and fly-in fly-out workers and will provide a state of the art facility which incorporates a new indoor playing court, a gym, squash courts, club rooms for local football teams, short term childcare minding and function rooms.

The building design represents the local climate in the form and cladding pattern. Cyclones, intense weather patterns and heat distortion have been used to generate the façade creating an iconic place for the Hedland community.

Our approach to the design considered this building as a mirage – a shimmering, rippling effect on an otherwise flat landscape. Using a ‘halftone’ pixelated technique, the building’s entry façade acts as a clear visual image from long distances, whilst being highly aggregated on closer inspection.