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The Intergenerational Recreation Center

The Dyna-mo Intergenerational Recreation Center operates as an engine for intergenerational activities to bridge community and social gaps for the future through highly inclusive, interactive and innovative implemented spaces. The spaces will be able to offer you a unique experience to create new memories while commemorating the past.

The Journal of Intergenerational Relationships reveals that intergeneration interaction and knowledge exchange enhances the substantive relationship between the younger generation and the rest of the community.

location & architecture morphology

The site is formally located in Sydney in the suburb of Rozelle, with a dense population providing endless opportunities for us as designers to offer the place a new identity while retaining the existing cultural features. The lack of social gathering spaces commercial and cultural spaces, parks etc in the suburb raises the issue of the lack of community bonding.

Focus Lens

the intergeneration recreation center

Exploring new ways of interlacing the past and future to enhance community’s cultural and creative mindset that triggers emotional belongings and embark community connection to create a profound and highly cohesive community in the future.

Past Present Future

Serves as an industrial belt that has played a significant role in Sydney’s industrial development, benefited the local community

A symbol of Sydney’s industrial development that promotes Sydney’s history while also maximizing local recognition.

Reconstructing the site is essential to embrace intergenerational community bonding to inherit and offer new identity.

A cultural and creative mindset is something essential to consider about to reinforce culture and art resonate for multi-generations. However, it has been challenged due to society’s over reliance on the import of international culture.

Community Connectivity

Exploring new ways of interlacing the past present and future to build and create both physical and emotional belonging in order to enhance the long-term community bonding for future generations.

Emotional Belongings

The current situation of COVID-19, has been challenged through the changes of perception that people have towards a public space. Depict new innovative ways to re-value well-being and emotional belong to improve community’s psychological and mental health.