Designed by FJMT, Located on the edge of the Dee Why town center, the new PCYC Community Centre provides an entertainment hub for the peninsula?s youngest residents. It is conceived as a cloud-like a form settling on a pedestal that emerges from the ground. The counterpoint achieved by these two form types express in built form the dual program of community center over the car park.
Photography: Rodrigo Vargas
The roof form is cloud-like in nature as it is a free-form object defined by the internal program (functional spatial requirements) and the external constraints (solar access to neighboring apartments). It also possesses the quality of a gradual revealing of the internal content as the roof form drops and dissipates over the smaller spaces.
In its urban context, the plan is centered on a through the link from the town center. In consideration of the town center master plan and the existing context, the center comprises two entries. The South entry is directed toward the civic precinct and town center while the North entry provides access to the immediate surrounding suburban context connected by a ceremonial stair to the ground plane below.
Photography: Rodrigo Vargas
Internally this through connection is juxtaposed with the cross axis path between the sports hall and the multi-purpose rooms forming an intersection of pedestrian streets which defines the foyer. This, in turn, defines the ?Pods? – discreet units that house various functional spaces including t...