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McLaren Vale & Fleurieu Visitor Centre

Monarto Zoo Visitor Centre

Gum Park Homestead Redevelopment

Innes National Park
Visitor Centre

Adelaide Townhouse

Marion Cultural Centre

Living Kaurna Cultural Centre

McCormick Centre for the Environment

Woodcroft College Gymnasium

MADEC Mildura

Seymour College
Performing Arts Centre

Woodcroft College Admin Building

MADEC Mildura, 2005 - 2007

The MADEC building is a two-storey office and community facility, connected to the back of a heritage listed church on a prominent site in the centre of Mildura. Externally the most distinctive element of the building is its curved facade that circumscribes the church, reinforcing it as the dominant element on the site. Internally the building is dominated by a central atrium and rammed earth wall. The atrium provides natural light and ventilation to the heart of the building and the rammed earth regulates the temperature of the building with its thermal mass. Windows and blinds control the sunshine falling on the rammed earth blocking it out completely in summer.

This project won an Australian Timber Design Award.

The building employs in the following strategies to minimize environment impact:
• Use of low embodied energy materials including rammed earth, recycled and plantation timbers
• Underground water storage
• Effective sun-shading
• Internal thermal mass to modular temperature
• High level exhaust of hot air