Legacy Park Community Hub, Hobart, Australian Coastal Building, Tasmanian Architecture Images
Legacy Park Community Hub in Hobart
21 May 2021
Legacy Park Community Hub
Architects: Field Labs
Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

photo © Max Combi
The area between the Soldiers Memorial Oval and the Domain Athletic Centre has been developed into a new Community Hub, providing communal facilities including a barbecues, a nature-based Playscape and two Wood Fired Ovens. The park was named Legacy Park in March, 2019.

photo © Matt Sansom
The overall masterplan includes axial references the site in its broader context (kunanyi / Mt. Wellington) and the Derwent River, with conceptual cues taken from the prospect, refuge, and geological structures within the Lost World, and summit of kunanyi / Mt. Wellington.
photo © Matt Sansom
The immediate contextual response was to the established bush landscape of the Domain, and the site as the termination of the Soldiers Memorial Walk, from the Cenotaph.

photo © Matt Sansom
Material cues were taken from the memorial Cyprus trees, and adjacent Eltham pavilion, with the aim of creating a coherent language to the built form in the area. The Playscape was developed as an inclusive play space, for children of different ages and abilities, and invites children to climb, clamber and provides opportunities for imagination when playing. The spaces are intended to be flexible and allow for a variety of scales of interaction, with a primary...