> ARCHIVE > GIPPSLAND LAKES YACHT CLUB, GUNAIKURNAI LAND
ANTARCTICA are currently working with East Gippsland Shire Council on the new Gippsland Lakes Yacht Club. The project involved a rigorous briefing and community engagement phase led by ANTARCTICA with stakeholders, users and the wider Paynesville community.
Sitting between the water’s edge marina and the esplanade of Paynseville, it is a substantial public building and hub for the region which negotiates a public foreshore and a series of public uses with the needs of a long established yacht club. It is intended to house the administration of that club, other community tenants, visiting valet berthers and shared public events as well as forming a base for the Dragon Boat club and the Victorian Coast Guard branch.
The two levels of the building are distinguished by their relationship with the water. The lower floor sits below a designated flood level and contains non- habitable space, being predominantly boat storage and workshop but also substantial wet spaces for sailors. The entry to the upper level sits between the two floors at the flood level datum, and accesses a floor of flexible club room and function spaces. Everything from race day events to weddings and funerals are intended for these spaces. Both short term uses and long term repository of club memorabilia cohabit on this floor.
A key space at this level is the continuous balcony deck on the waterside which acts as a buffer to the interior spacers and drives the expression of a permeable delicate skin – a batten screen of coloured recycled reconstituted timber, which hovers as a pavilion over the masonry plinth of the lower level. That offset relationship with the plinth below also forms a terrace facing toward the landscape and the esplanade. Inside, much of the material expression is intended as drawn from the timber salvaged from the old building.
The apron between the boat sheds and the water as well as the landscaped space at the western entry form outdoor public event spaces, functioning as race event gathering and boat parking and concert venues at other times.
The design aims to form a new point to the waters edge in Paynseville a public presence for visitors to the town, and flexible hub for a range of boat based communities within it.
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Sitting between the water’s edge marina and the esplanade of Paynseville, it is a substantial public building and hub for the region which negotiates a public foreshore and a series of public uses with the needs of a long established yacht club. It is intended to house the administration of that club, other community tenants, visiting valet berthers and shared public events as well as forming a base for the Dragon Boat club and the Victorian Coast Guard branch.
The two levels of the building are distinguished by their relationship with the water. The lower floor sits below a designated flood level and contains non- habitable space, being predominantly boat storage and workshop but also substantial wet spaces for sailors. The entry to the upper level sits between the two floors at the flood level datum, and accesses a floor of flexible club room and function spaces. Everything from race day events to weddings and funerals are intended for these spaces. Both short term uses and long term repository of club memorabilia cohabit on this floor.
A key space at this level is the continuous balcony deck on the waterside which acts as a buffer to the interior spacers and drives the expression of a permeable delicate skin – a batten screen of coloured recycled reconstituted timber, which hovers as a pavilion over the masonry plinth of the lower level. That offset relationship with the plinth below also forms a terrace facing toward the landscape and the esplanade. Inside, much of the material expression is intended as drawn from the timber salvaged from the old building.
The apron between the boat sheds and the water as well as the landscaped space at the western entry form outdoor public event spaces, functioning as race event gathering and boat parking and concert venues at other times.
The design aims to form a new point to the waters edge in Paynseville a public presence for visitors to the town, and flexible hub for a range of boat based communities within it.
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