Paul's post about a community centre for Elizabeth Swan Park reminded me of this article by Taryn Sheppard I read in The Scope about a community centre in Denmark. The community centre pictured here serves a neighborhood of 600 families. The bottom of the structure has a half-pipe skate ramp and going up one side there's a climbing wall.
The inside includes multi-functional spaces that could serve many different groups at the same time. With spaces on various levels with many entrances, there's lots of ways to access various rooms and to create different spaces with moving walls and hatch doors. A kitchen can transform into an outdoor patio or bar. A performance space has a stage that can be divided into smaller stages by sliding walls. The top level of the facility is an open roof terrace and basketball court, which can be accessed without crossing paths with other groups.
Pretty creative stuff!
All of this talk of community centres reminds me that we haven't heard much about the new Town Hall that has been proposed. I attended an information session about it in July 2011. Since then, I've not really heard much about it.
Also haven't heard much about the plans for the old Clarenville primary school which is now boarded up. Wonder what the plans are for that.
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| Herstedlund Community Centre in Albertslund, Denmark. Photo by Adam Mørk |
Pretty creative stuff!
All of this talk of community centres reminds me that we haven't heard much about the new Town Hall that has been proposed. I attended an information session about it in July 2011. Since then, I've not really heard much about it.
Also haven't heard much about the plans for the old Clarenville primary school which is now boarded up. Wonder what the plans are for that.
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