COLORBOND® AWARD FOR STEEL ARCHITECTURE

COLORBOND® AWARD FOR STEEL ARCHITECTURE

LOCKLEYS OVAL REDEVELOPMENT

WALTER BROOKE & ASSOCIATES

The Lockleys Oval Redevelopment provides a combined home for multiple local sports and community organisations, with shared facilities allowing for a higher standard of accommodation than the former separate clubrooms. A neutral colour palette, featuring Matt Surf Mist Colorbond cladding provides a backdrop for each group to brand the facility during their season, fostering identity and belonging for all within the communal whole.

The building also acts as a focal point for the wider community and is visible from all sides across the sporting fields and Karrawirra Parri. The design responds to this context, with curved elements highlighting entry points and steel louvre panels neatly screening services. The steel structure also enables column free viewing from the ground level and balcony above.

CustomOrb cladding has been utilised to provide visual interest through light and shadow and curved forms, and to reference the previous clubrooms, which were predominantly sheds. CustomOrb also met the requirements for an affordable yet robust building, that will withstand the rough and tumble of active community use and the exposed environmental position while retaining its crisp appearance. It is a quintessentially Australian material for a building that responds to the Australian sporting tradition.