LOCATION
Werribee, Victoria
CLIENT
Lotus Living
SECTOR
Community
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jaime Diaz-Berrio
TRADITIONAL LAND OWNERS
The Wadawurrung and Bunurong Peoples
Club Jubilee One required a high-quality, private facility that matched the Jubilee estate vision. The brief called for a unique, contemporary benchmark - an exclusive residents-only recreation club through the creation of a modern, family-friendly waterpark. Without a clear precedent design brief, Baldasso Cortese carried out extensive research in order to create a customised vision for the development.
This thorough investigation refined the brief to identify the following major components of the site: a family leisure pool, toddler pool, learn-to-swim pool, 25m lap pool, 2 indoor waterslides, gym, 25m ancillary amenities and strong connection to outdoor, landscaped areas.
The design now stands to impress with its glazed façade along the street interface, reinforcing the aesthetic with transparency between the main pool concourse and landscaped areas.
A dramatic structural roof form and colourful waterslides create a powerful and distinctive highlight for the Jubilee estate. The yellow steel, roof trusses span over the pool area, creating a lightweight, high-tech edge to this sophisticated building.
The design incorporated ESD sustainable technology for an energy-efficient building with low lifecycle costs over the building’s use and life span.
Some of the initiatives include:
Rainwater harvesting from roof to underground balance tanks for the pool water.
Passive solar design of daylighting with sufficient daylighting levels achieved in the pool hall by the façade and roof light design.
Efficient artificial LED dimmable lighting, reducing lighting costs.
Solar PV installed on the north-facing roof.
Low VOC paints, sealants and flooring were specified to improve the air health of patrons and staff.
Acoustic insulation to reduce noise volumes and increase acoustic comfort levels.
